[transitorykris]

I worked with a boutique management consulting company part time during college in 98/99. Notes and Domino came packaged with a few IBM servers they bought. I was tasked with setting it up for email. It was fun exploring the system, absolutely not knowing what I was doing. I ended up having a similar experience of building out an app in realtime to help one of the consultants manually compiling a large amount of data for a customer. Extremely rewarding. But, it was also a painful lesson in NoSQL (before we even had that word...)

[j45]

It was nosql.. until one used notessql to get it into ansi sql over an odbc connection.

[goatlover]

It was a document database. The idea being that workflow was document based, and the applications you made for it were using documents in a workflow.