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Lotus Domino for Linux goes Gold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday November 20, 1999 @09:02AM from the enterprise-encroachment? dept.

The Masked Twit writes "The Lotus Domino R5 for Linux gold code has just been posted on Lotus' Notes Net site. Have fun! " We've known it's been in the works for awhile, but now it's finally here.

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This is great... by jd · 1999-11-20 05:07 · Score: 3

...as a start. A magnificent start, to be sure, but still only a start. The whole of Lotus Notes needs to be ported to Linux, before a Linux Domino server will be seen by the IT sector as much more than an interesting toy.
If Lotus wants to tap into the extremely profitable and vast Linux market, it needs to be making strides. Baby steps are fine, to start with, but you won't get far down the road with those alone.
IBM has made tremendous strides, and each seems to be greater than the last. That's great! That's wonderful! And that should be shining example to Lotus, the reluctant tortoise. Even tortoises can win races, but not if they end up sleeping for longer than the hare.

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... by Signal+11 · 1999-11-20 05:08 · Score: 3

As another reader pointed out, Lotus has some issues to resolve. Now, if anybody has ever had to use keyboard shortcuts for Netscape and thought the same shortcuts work under linux... ah, well. And Netscape is actually somewhat compliant to the "windowish" way of doing things... after reading this critique.. I wouldn't be suprised if Lotus threw foot pedals under each user's machine and had them "play" their computer like an organ to do something simple like send an e-mail!
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