As have I for nearly a year... but only for DNS originally. Their on-line system does work very well for doing the updates.
However, so far this year, I have recorded 10 DNS time-out errors (monitored 24 x 7 every 15 minutes). The e-mail request to address this problem was ignored, as was my request to see what involvement (and ownership) they have with (by) Microsoft. Why? Whois enom.com:
Paul Stahura (stahura@enom.com) 425-868-4636 FAX: 425-868-5323 1716 221st PL NE REDMOND, WA 98053
Now that our prized domain name is up for renewal with NSI, I'll think twice about taking the chance of messing it up by going with 'another' registrar. Paranoid? Perhaps, but we can not possibly afford to lose or take the domain that we've spent so much effort promoting off-line. I'll pay the $35 to NSI and get a good night's sleep. Perhaps by next year I'll be comfortable enough to take the risk...
Only this is the "Internet economy" and classic rules don't apply. Both Yahoo! and Global Crossing closed up yesterday and (significantly) today; both ahead of the S&P500, of which both are members. Go figure, but don't sell short before making a DoS attack or you could lose your shirt and go to jail...
We tried to license Intel's Wavelet compression used by RealNetworks and Microsoft in their video players (look for the "Optimized for Intel" logo), but when we disclosed that our player was a Java based solution, they quickly refused to let us work with them. It seems that no price could get us in the game; they gave us the feeling that it was more important to keep the technology firmly rooted to the hardware than to get a license fee from their IP. Not too much of a surprise, since Intel backed out of the consortium for the Java Media Framework API after v. 1. Too bad all the IP that IBM brought to the consortium didn't have a Wavelet tool kit...
A basic installation of Domino gives you an address book with your phone numbers, and the default 'templates' allow you to create web-based databases for discussions and postings.
Another default database template lets you create a "Microsoft Office Document Database" that allows you to create Embedded documents or attach existing Office documents. If you index the database, you can include the text of the documents (Embedded or attached) in the index for searching and retrieval.
Don't believe the hype about the problems with Domino, I've been a Certified Lotus Professional Developer and Admin for years and if you follow basic system principles, (don't mess with it to see what it does), it will work for you. In my experience, Domino runs very well on *nix platforms, but can even be run on NT, if you are prepared to reboot the box every weekend!
As a long time/. lurker, I've finally been moved to post - please keep the "proprietary" flames in check. (See MikeR, you knew you'd get met to post eventually)
In the days before the web, Notes was a secure, distributed, document database. When the web came along, some said, (mostly Microsoft folks as I remember), this is the death of Notes. If Lotus had chosen to stick to the exclusively proprietary, (ie. their "property") requirements, it probably would have been. Instead they chose to support "open" protocols and turned the Notes server into an HTTP server; aka Domino. With present day support for SMTP, POP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, X.400 as well as several other company's proprietary protocols, scripts and languages (SSL, JavaScript, Java, and Perl) Domino is a kitchen sink of acronym support. But, more importantly it still works very, very well at what it was designed to do: securely distribute documents.
Sure, you can craft together many different, and probably free applications, script languages, security systems, e-mail systems, databases, web servers, directory servers, file servers and other elements to try to do workflow; but why? If it is for the sake of not using proprietary software, why limit your company that way? Why not choose the best tool for the job? Even if you have to pay for it, sometimes buying software makes very good sense for businesses. Consider the long term value. Especially since you can do all of the workflow that Domino is famous for without the Notes client anyway. Unless you need the PKI security and the local replication of data, just use a browser! It really works well and by using the document database you never end up with broken links for missing or accidentally overwritten documents. The Access Control List management simplification alone could save you a lot of time and grief.
Lest you think I'm an IBM spy, let me assure you, I'm not. I'm a humble Internet entrepreneur that is glad to have some extra time to do real work rather than trying to solve the latest integration headache. BTW - I do run Linux/Apache AND Domino because it is all about using the best tool for the job.
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As have I for nearly a year... but only for DNS originally. Their on-line system does work very well for doing the updates.
However, so far this year, I have recorded 10 DNS time-out errors (monitored 24 x 7 every 15 minutes). The e-mail request to address this problem was ignored, as was my request to see what involvement (and ownership) they have with (by) Microsoft. Why? Whois enom.com:
Paul Stahura (stahura@enom.com)
425-868-4636
FAX: 425-868-5323
1716 221st PL NE
REDMOND, WA 98053
Now that our prized domain name is up for renewal with NSI, I'll think twice about taking the chance of messing it up by going with 'another' registrar. Paranoid? Perhaps, but we can not possibly afford to lose or take the domain that we've spent so much effort promoting off-line. I'll pay the $35 to NSI and get a good night's sleep. Perhaps by next year I'll be comfortable enough to take the risk...
Only this is the "Internet economy" and classic rules don't apply. Both Yahoo! and Global Crossing closed up yesterday and (significantly) today; both ahead of the S&P500, of which both are members. Go figure, but don't sell short before making a DoS attack or you could lose your shirt and go to jail...
We tried to license Intel's Wavelet compression used by RealNetworks and Microsoft in their video players (look for the "Optimized for Intel" logo), but when we disclosed that our player was a Java based solution, they quickly refused to let us work with them. It seems that no price could get us in the game; they gave us the feeling that it was more important to keep the technology firmly rooted to the hardware than to get a license fee from their IP. Not too much of a surprise, since Intel backed out of the consortium for the Java Media Framework API after v. 1. Too bad all the IP that IBM brought to the consortium didn't have a Wavelet tool kit...
A basic installation of Domino gives you an address book with your phone numbers, and the default 'templates' allow you to create web-based databases for discussions and postings.
Another default database template lets you create a "Microsoft Office Document Database" that allows you to create Embedded documents or attach existing Office documents. If you index the database, you can include the text of the documents (Embedded or attached) in the index for searching and retrieval.
Don't believe the hype about the problems with Domino, I've been a Certified Lotus Professional Developer and Admin for years and if you follow basic system principles, (don't mess with it to see what it does), it will work for you. In my experience, Domino runs very well on *nix platforms, but can even be run on NT, if you are prepared to reboot the box every weekend!
As a long time /. lurker, I've finally been moved to post - please keep the "proprietary" flames in check. (See MikeR, you knew you'd get met to post eventually)
In the days before the web, Notes was a secure, distributed, document database. When the web came along, some said, (mostly Microsoft folks as I remember), this is the death of Notes. If Lotus had chosen to stick to the exclusively proprietary, (ie. their "property") requirements, it probably would have been. Instead they chose to support "open" protocols and turned the Notes server into an HTTP server; aka Domino. With present day support for SMTP, POP, LDAP, IMAP, NNTP, X.400 as well as several other company's proprietary protocols, scripts and languages (SSL, JavaScript, Java, and Perl) Domino is a kitchen sink of acronym support. But, more importantly it still works very, very well at what it was designed to do: securely distribute documents.
Sure, you can craft together many different, and probably free applications, script languages, security systems, e-mail systems, databases, web servers, directory servers, file servers and other elements to try to do workflow; but why? If it is for the sake of not using proprietary software, why limit your company that way? Why not choose the best tool for the job? Even if you have to pay for it, sometimes buying software makes very good sense for businesses. Consider the long term value. Especially since you can do all of the workflow that Domino is famous for without the Notes client anyway. Unless you need the PKI security and the local replication of data, just use a browser! It really works well and by using the document database you never end up with broken links for missing or accidentally overwritten documents. The Access Control List management simplification alone could save you a lot of time and grief.
Lest you think I'm an IBM spy, let me assure you, I'm not. I'm a humble Internet entrepreneur that is glad to have some extra time to do real work rather than trying to solve the latest integration headache. BTW - I do run Linux/Apache AND Domino because it is all about using the best tool for the job.