This month, we've got some very interesting Letters to the Editor. Two are among the many heartfelt letters we get from readers telling us just how incredibly, amazingly, wonderfully, overwhelmingly grateful they are for the magazine (OK, well, at least they like us). And then, we run an interesting letter pointing out a curious Lotus licensing policy. If you put up Domino sites, you'll want to read and ponder this important letter.

Just a quick thank you for both your articles on UI standards (Nov 98 and June 99). I just started a new long-term contract, cleaning up a bunch of "color-blind drunk-monkey" code as well as creating some new databases, too. I had been debating finally putting together a standards database but it had gotten pushed to the low-priority stack. Now, however, just having read the first article, I can't wait to get started! Thanks again for all the new ideas (and I haven't even read your second article yet!) and the time you took to share this excellent information.

Sincerely,
Alicia Brewer
abrewer1998@yahoo.com

Thanks again!
Richard, thank you for your article on Standards when it comes to development of databases for Notes/Domino. I'm new to developing in this environment, and the information in this article has given me a great start in getting the standards formalized.

As a matter a fact, when I created my first application in Domino, I played with colors, fonts, etc. as you mentioned in your article. I found what I liked and when I was asked to create another one I kept to the same format that I did in the first database. It seems that I'm on the right track!

Won't take up anymore of your time as I'm sure it's busy. Thank you again for your thoughts on this subject I will definitely be using it.

Sharon Plunk
splunk@nucentrix.net

Reader doesn't like Lotus licensing approach
Chris Brown posted the following letter to Notes.Net in the hopes of persuading Lotus to back off from a licensing approach she does not agree with and sent it to DominoPower as well:

I just found this Domino Client Access License document on Lotus' site. I take issue with this:

Domino Per User CAL is required for all authenticated users who are employees of the company.

This means every user that logs in to any app on a Domino server must have a $40 CAL, and renew that license each year for another $10. Now I can understand requiring a license for Web access users who want a Mailbox on the Domino server or some sort of Notes install, but if it's just a Person Doc in the NAB, why make them get a license? Or if so, why so much? A full Notes client license is like $60 -- if all I want is to log in to a Web app, why do I need all of that?