The Lotus years

Now before you get all jumpy, let's try to remember this was when Lotus 1-2-3 was king of the hill, bless Iris Asociates.
So when Lotus Notes 1.0/2.0 came out, sure people wanted to try it. But it was a failure of a flat database at first. BUT it did one thing really well.
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I was blown away, here was a program I was dreaming about, one which could talk to ther people in the building or around the world. It was beautiful and then came V3.3 which really got to working the way it should.
I immediately decided being a consultant would suck if I didn't learn everything about this great product. I tried many times to get a job with Lotus/Iris but they wouldn't answer my pleas to let me into the sacred sanctum.

Back when Ray Ozzie was a genius, well he still is relative to many people, and Microsoft and IBM were still doing DOS and supposedly doing OS/2 I thought I could get in there, but no dice. Oddly enough years later Groove wouldn't hire me either, evidently Floridians just don't work for Ozzie and his staff. But I did make it to Lotus, MANY years later.