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Lotus Notes For Linux To Be Released By IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the follow-on-corporate dept.

gamigad writes "According to ZDNet, Lotus Notes 7.0.1 will be released for Linux. Availability is expected to be on July 24. It ain't gonna be a free lunch, tho" It's going to be based mainly on the Eclipse framework, and it does appear that you'll be able to swap a Linux version for a Windows or Mac version if you so choose.

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  1. the horror by earthpig · · Score: -1, Troll

    notes is the BPOBC (biggest piece of bloated crap) i've seen, and one of the few products i have used where i wanted to use a microsoft product instead (outlook). And now it is coming to linux. Oh joy! This is a step forward?

    1. Re:the horror by Himring · · Score: 1, Troll

      Concur. Anyone who has been forced (and hopefully few have volunteered) to administer lotes shudders at the thought of it. It was the worst adminning experience I've ever had....

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  2. FINALLY by netsavior · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have been looking for a way to crash Linux.

  3. Re:Not free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let joy be unconfined!

    I'm really looking forward to seeing yet another SWT-based application on Linux. I really want to watch my apps redraw themselves like a 486 running Windows 3.1. I'm being a little unfair here -- it's not SWT's fault. SWT uses GTK as a backend on Linux, and the last couple of GTk versions have been (quite incredibly) slower than ever. Nokia's engineers describe it as catastrophically slower and basically unusable on their Maemo platform (hence sticking with v2.6). GNOME users, unfortunately, are stuck with it. The thoughtful GNOME developers forced everyone onto v2.8+. So we've got machines that run like fucking slugs. Once you add on another layer on top (like SWT, or Mozilla/Firefox widgets), the result is pitiful.

    GTK really is a piece of shit, and its maintainers have no fucking idea what they are doing. It's been, what, five years since GTK2.0 and the performance is getting worse. Say their names with shame folks.

  4. Re:Actually, it's a good thing, by hacker · · Score: 1, Troll
    The biggest drawback is the eclipse framework. Eclipse's java requires sun's jvm which conflicts with gjc. Open Office requires gjc in linux for 100% functionality, sun's jvm won't cut it.
    gcj has been building Eclipse for awhile now... you might try using that instead of polluting the system with Sun's JVM where it is no longer needed.
  5. Re:Can't be a bad thing by iBod · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody actually 'needs' or 'wants' Lotus Notes - it's an abortion!

    Windows user might need or want Exchange, but Notes - never!

  6. Re:EEEeeeew! by jedidiah · · Score: -1, Troll

    That massive groupware application is why you hear all the screaming.

    Notes is bad enough as a simple mail application. As soon as you force it to do ANYthing else, things quickly go downhill from there.

    Even ccmail is better than Notes.

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  7. Re:EEEeeeew! by IntlHarvester · · Score: 0, Troll

    The database stuff in Notes is mostly ignored nowdays (for good reason). As far as most users are concerned it's a mail/calandar program and that's it.

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  8. Should be a boon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    since Linux users are to used to crappy user interfaces.