>Well as usual Chip's 'explanations' are not what they purport to be.
>PROMIS and Lotus Notes are not the same thing. PROMIS is proprietary
>software that is based on Lotus Notes applications. Many
>sophisticated computer programs are based on previously developed
>and less complex applications, and can be much more powerful and
>advanced, as is the case with PROMIS in relation to Lotus Notes.
>PROMIS was developed in the 1980s by a firm called INSLAW (which
>claims that the Justice Dept. stole the program). Since then, as you
>presumably know, there have been exponential advances in computing
>and software developers have created very advanced versions of
>PROMIS based technology - which may have been employed by people
>involved in carrying out the 9-11 attacks.
This obsession with PROMIS and INSLAW and all that struck me as nutty the first time around, and it seems even nuttier all these years later. What is so hot about a single piece of software? There must be thousands, scores of thousands, of programmers who could whip up the equivalent. It's not the holy fucking grail, for heaven's sake.
Doug