RE: [TCLUG:8080] Lotus Notes ported to Linux

["Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>]

A Notes/Domino server for Linux is essentially worthless to us at Carlson.
We have an installed based of ~5k of winclients talking to NT Notes servers
for totally non-email purposes - we've got our entire time tracking system
as a Notes app, for instance. That in itself locks non-Winblows boxes out of
the possibility of runnning an alternative OS like Linux. While a Linux
Notes server would be great for stability/uptime/performance, the cost to
train the admins to run & support them offsets any short term advantage -
and without a short term business advantage, you'll never convince the empty
heads upstairs. And until we have a complete replacement of the capabilities
of our Winblows workstations on Linux instead, we can't migrate a single
one. 

Heck, even us IT people can't make a Linux box be our primary workstations -
we still need Notes among other things, like DFS. Which has about a
snowball's chance in hell of happening. I still believe (unfortunately) the
only way to conquer the server room is to conquer the cubicles first. Linux
will never achieve primary marketshare in the server room if it's not in the
cubicles.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark [mailto:salsa@spacestar.com]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:02 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG:8080] Lotus Notes ported to Linux


> Good morning everyone,

 http://www.notes.net/welcome.nsf


As you can see, Lotus Notes is available to try on Linux.  Has anyone done
this and is it of
interest to the Linux community in general?

Enjoy your holiday and the fair,

Mark


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