It was 1993 and I was working in the IT department of a
Fortune 500 government contractor in the Washington D.C. area. Our division of 3000 employees was using
DOS based PC’s tying into Novell 3.x and cc:Mail. I can remember the autoexec.bat file we used on all machines was
over 20 pages long! I still have a copy
of it.
We were sitting in a staff meeting one day when our division’s
IT director told us about a new initiative from corporate of rolling out a new
application called Lotus Notes. It was
mainly to support this new corporate app, but it also did email. He asked for a volunteer from our team to be
the lead on the project. I just
happened to be the one to raise his hand.
Over the next couple of years I set up twenty-some severs running Lotus Notes 3 on OS/2, and
converting everyone’s cc:mail over to Notes mail. I pretty much ran the division’s Notes infrastructure single
handedly. In 1996 the entire company
upgraded all 200 servers to V4 in one night.
I left soon thereeafter.
Since then I have have dabbled in other non-Notes IT stuff, like
that crazy IT mangagement stuff, but Notes seems to draw me back. It gets into your blood (bleed
yellow), which is why I titled this “How
Lotus Notes Got Into Me” instead of “How I Got Into Lotus Notes.”
It’s amazing how such a simple act of raising your hand can
alter your entire career!
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