“Lotus is abandoning eSuite, once touted as the Java-based
Microsoft Office killer, after over two years of it making very
little impact in the market. The product consisted of a basic word
processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and desktop…
reminiscent of Lotus SmartSuite. Lotus originally developed eSuite
to run on network computers and within Notes/Domino groupware
environments in March 1997, but it could also run in a JVM under
DOS on PCs. …the NC market and the client side Java market never
took off.”
“What has killed eSuite more than anything else is that most
organisations want thin browser based clients with a few choice
plug-ins and a Javascript capability rather than fat Java based
clients.”
“…Java has taken off on the server, but not yet on the
client… The vision of distributed Java architectures running
applications on multiple clients has still to be realised.”