Anyone responsible for Lotus Notes...
...is just what HP deserves.
HP needs to understand consumers better and build a software business as well, so it has added three more board members to help CEO Meg Whitman's ongoing turnaround of the IT giant. Ray Ozzie, of Lotus and Microsoft fame, is no doubt the most important addition, but given the experience of two other new board members running …
Ozzie *was not* the man behind 1-2-3. He was behind Symphony, which was not exactly one of the most successful Lotus products. He develeped Notes at Iris, and Notes lost soon to Outlook/Exchange as a mail/collaboration platform due to its awful, non-standard interface, and primitive database model.
Meawhile Lotus/IBM killed itself delivering bad office suite products - that could not compete with MS Office at all.
HP shows once more it has no clue about what and who it needs to return to be a great company - oh well, it is the company that made someone like Apotheker its CEO....