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Lotus Notes 8.5 Will Support Ubuntu 7.0
E5Rebel sends in an article from Computerworld.uk article that reports: "IBM believes Linux on the enterprise desktop is finally ready for widespread adoption. To meet future demand it is preparing to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.0... The Ubuntu support for Notes and Symphony were a direct response to demand from customers."
There is no Ubuntu 7.0. I'd expect them to support 8.04, Hardy.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Amazing how many news outlets repeat the "7.0" typo.
Of course it should read "7.10" as in october 2007.
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Notes 8.0 already supports OpenOffice docs (built-in editors), so no big breakthrough there.
Bye!
Overreact much?
Notes is a development platform and distributed database. It's not the fault of the program if your IT department makes you use it as an email tool without end-user customisations.
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IBM has owned Notes for like 15 years now, they deserve all the blame.
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6.5 was made back in 2003. Of course it is better. Most of the FUD being spouted is from people using older versions of Notes, or having to use applications written by people not qualified to write them (mainly because it is as easy to write as VB). Or worse still they spend all that money and only use it for email.
R8 is pretty much sitting on top of Eclipse. You still have notes backend but you can work with composite applications either as an NSF or as plugins. 8.1 even allows you to link to Google widgets within the client.
R8 works in Linux already (Designer client is scheduled for 8.5). What IBM is doing is certifying the client under Ubuntu 7.
AFAIK, being a Notes-user for many years and having a good relation with IBM, they already do support SuSE and Redhat... Ubuntu is just the next distro getting certified Notes support. ;-)
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No, Notes doesn't suck... Notes is just different... but then, so is Linux.
Actually, they just announced at Lotussphere that for Notes 8.5, they are working on an Eclipse-based Designer, which then would be quite simple to also make available on other platforms than Windows... So it's very likely going to happen.
In the mean time, as far as I know, it's possible to run Designer under Wine.
Your machine or network is severely broken. It takes less than 2 seconds to open my Notes client, connect to the server, and display a view containing 4100 documents that are stored on the server.
The default install of Notes has never run that fast on any computer ever built and you know it. Don't bullshit us. It takes more than 2 seconds to show the splash screen. Hell, Outlook is craploads faster than Notes and it can't do that in anywhere close to 2 seconds.
1) You're running Notes 4 or something on modern hardware.
2) You've stripped down your Notes entirely so it does nothing but load this folder of 4100 documents.
3) You're running some kind of helper application that keeps Notes resident in memory, so it doesn't actually have to load anything.
Go grab your Notes CD, do a DEFAULT INSTALL on your hardware, set up a standard user account using the standard welcome screen, then tell me how long it takes to boot.
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