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Mac OS X Version of Lotus Notes 6

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-nowhere-near-that-flexible-anymore dept.

NadizPicR writes "Lotus released the first Mac OS X beta for its Notes Domino messaging and collaboration system client. Version 6.0b1 also features improved toolbar handling. I just downloaded and installed it, and it seems to be an excellent implementation." Do people still use Lotus Notes? Honestly?

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  1. Flamebait by sydb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do people still use Lotus Notes? Honestly?

    This is just /. flamebait. Notes has a huge installed base in big financial institutions and other sectors where security and IBM are important. My employer, with over 10,000 staff, is currently migrating everyone to Notes from a mix of mainframe mail and POP3. 2000 users are to be migrated this weekend.

    Now, I'm a Free Software bigot, so I hate Notes for being proprietary. And I hate the odd GUI for being... well, odd and buggy. But Notes has no real competition in terms of features and security. It's also impressively cross platform (on the server side, anyway).

    It's really in a class of it's own. Of course it's still used.

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    Yours Sincerely, Michael.
  2. Re:Screenshots? by tarkin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do you dream about such silly things ? If you were to pay for all that stuff you would be gratefull that Oracle is making Linux their main platform. You still can't beat the price of that OS!

    I like OS X alot as my primary Desktop platform, but give me my Linux on the server side for maximum performance,cheap intell hardware and thus the lowest Cost of Owndership for all my server needs.
    Apple shouldn't take on Linux for the UNIX server market, Linux already won that in my opinion. Just you watch and see !

    And for rack mounted Apple hardware (if you still insist ) look here : Dual 1Ghz Rackmounted, running YellowDog Linux offcourse ;-)

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    blaah !