I have 100 Domino servers on Windows Server, one on an AS400 (to be retired) and have it running on CentOS in my lab (damn corporate fear the Linux.) The AS400 is slated for replacement but I do have to say it is one solid bit of kit.
I'm running 30,000 users all over the globe on IBM Domino (it hasn't been Lotus for two decades.) It is interesting but I must say there are some really cool things about it. Think of it this way, Exchange is a mail program that tries to be a database. Domino is a database program that tries to be a mail server. With Domino, email is just one way to use it. It's data replication between hosts over the WAN is like nothing Exchange could do. Domino was designed in the 90s when intermittent dial-up between hosts was the common solution. I have about 100 servers sitting in Tunisia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, all the EU, US and even Canada. They all talk together and share the same address book and master config.
So yes, now that we have been bought by another larger French aerospace company, we will be moving to some form of Exchange. It will still take years to get out from under all the applications so I'm sure I'm good until retirement in about 10 years.
But don't knock Domino until you have really looked at it. Did you know it runs on Unix and Linux? IBM supports it on the AS4000 so do you want to talk about uptime?
Nice to see that someone is still messing with resistors that have bands. You must like the old cruft like I do. My issue is the focus now. Many many years ago I was able to solder a 40 pin flat pack without glasses. Now I'm lucky to find the damn iron without technological assistance.
I'm a BSD/Linux head from way way back. No way would I run it for clients at a company over about 20 people. I do IT operations for a 90,000 user international 120 year old French company, I might know what I'm talking about.
Whenever the person says, "This call may be recorded..." I tell them, "You bet I'm recording this!" Some come back and say that I'm not allowed to do that. I tell them, too late.
I remember back in the mid 90's I hosted images.slashdot.org on a Slackware box (Pent 90, IIRC) because Rob Malda's T-1 circuit was getting constrained. I was working for the Seattle ISP Wolfe.net and we had a whopping T-3 with 45Mb/s direct to Sprint.
Slashdot start off on Slackware.
This, of course, was back in the dial-up days. Nothing like trying to find a ring-no-answer in a 400 line hunt-group.
This is why I work to build our local CERT teams and work with the Tribes to stockpile MRE's and whatnot. I also live in a native American fishing village when they know how to feed themselves without depending on stores. Last week we spent $11k on ham radios with solar power to keep the rez in touch with the rest of the state.
Working WITH the community is always the better plan.
To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network.
No, that's what VMWare vCenter is for. It's not a tremendous amount of work, etc., we do it every month or so.
The vulnerabilities are happening because 4G operators are misconfiguring the Diameter protocol (a SS7 replacement) and using it in the same way as SS7.
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I have 100 Domino servers on Windows Server, one on an AS400 (to be retired) and have it running on CentOS in my lab (damn corporate fear the Linux.) The AS400 is slated for replacement but I do have to say it is one solid bit of kit.
Yep, get Sharepoint to replicate to 100 different sites across the world.
Sending secure mail internally was easy as long as you kept track of you user's .id files.
I'm running 30,000 users all over the globe on IBM Domino (it hasn't been Lotus for two decades.) It is interesting but I must say there are some really cool things about it. Think of it this way, Exchange is a mail program that tries to be a database. Domino is a database program that tries to be a mail server. With Domino, email is just one way to use it. It's data replication between hosts over the WAN is like nothing Exchange could do. Domino was designed in the 90s when intermittent dial-up between hosts was the common solution. I have about 100 servers sitting in Tunisia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, all the EU, US and even Canada. They all talk together and share the same address book and master config.
So yes, now that we have been bought by another larger French aerospace company, we will be moving to some form of Exchange. It will still take years to get out from under all the applications so I'm sure I'm good until retirement in about 10 years.
But don't knock Domino until you have really looked at it. Did you know it runs on Unix and Linux? IBM supports it on the AS4000 so do you want to talk about uptime?
Nice to see that someone is still messing with resistors that have bands. You must like the old cruft like I do. My issue is the focus now. Many many years ago I was able to solder a 40 pin flat pack without glasses. Now I'm lucky to find the damn iron without technological assistance.
I'm a BSD/Linux head from way way back. No way would I run it for clients at a company over about 20 people. I do IT operations for a 90,000 user international 120 year old French company, I might know what I'm talking about.
If you think cherry picking is fun, I have some Eastern Washington orchardists that would like to chat with you.
Remember when you didn't know who was calling you on your landline phone?
(Also remember when having a phone number with low digits was good so people could dial it quicker?)
Seattle hasn't had a baseball team since 2001, at least in any effective way.
Don't know if you heard but Tiffany died last year.
This is Washington State. Bong ads in NatGeo would actually be a good ad investment. Just put the words indigenous and fair-trade in the description.
Whenever the person says, "This call may be recorded..." I tell them, "You bet I'm recording this!" Some come back and say that I'm not allowed to do that. I tell them, too late.
Doug?
I remember back in the mid 90's I hosted images.slashdot.org on a Slackware box (Pent 90, IIRC) because Rob Malda's T-1 circuit was getting constrained. I was working for the Seattle ISP Wolfe.net and we had a whopping T-3 with 45Mb/s direct to Sprint.
Slashdot start off on Slackware.
This, of course, was back in the dial-up days. Nothing like trying to find a ring-no-answer in a 400 line hunt-group.
I think the Esri map looks better. Oh well Google.
So we're back to 10" netbooks. That worked out so well last time.
Also thank unleaded gas. Yippie science
I did not know that you live in Seattle.
This is why I work to build our local CERT teams and work with the Tribes to stockpile MRE's and whatnot. I also live in a native American fishing village when they know how to feed themselves without depending on stores. Last week we spent $11k on ham radios with solar power to keep the rez in touch with the rest of the state.
Working WITH the community is always the better plan.
Once I can afford one of these AIs I can let it do all my gaming and I can go back to having a life.
Greyfox, old man, the dreams we use to have, I tell you; the dreams we use to have.
To reproduce that capability with your own hardware & infrastructure requires a tremendous amount of planning and capital investment: in power, servers, and network.
No, that's what VMWare vCenter is for. It's not a tremendous amount of work, etc., we do it every month or so.
The vulnerabilities are happening because 4G operators are misconfiguring the Diameter protocol (a SS7 replacement) and using it in the same way as SS7.
Reminds me of IPv6.
I think there's an app for that.
Where's my up-mod points when something really good comes along.