Well, it is a bit bloated 'cause it can do so much. It's rather like that big fat Swiss Army knife weighing down your pocket.
If all you need is ascii email, well, it's overkill; but, should you wish to build collabortive apps that run in browsers and in the Notes client, use group scheduling, email with lots of code embedded in the mail memos, integrate with just about every RDBMS, then Notes/Domino will do the trick.
Well, Notes6 (aka RNext) will not have to deal with the OS/2 PM, as I am told. So, the UI folks at Lotus/Iris Associates are cleaning up a lot of those old hangers on.
Also, rumor has it that the Powers That Be at IBM won't ship RNext 'til it is actually finished, unlike R5 which snuck out the door a bit to soon.
Many a folk complain that the UI in Notes uses many a convention that errs from the well trodden path of M$. Well, of course! Notes clients had to accomodate OS/2, Mac, Win 3.1, et cetera.
And yes, the server is very stable now. But it is only as stable as the OS. Run the Domino server on top of Wintendo and what do you get? Run in on an IBM s390 machine and...well, you get what you pay for.
Oh, by the way, it runs very well under Red Hat, too.
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Check out www.notesbench.org
They have all the stats about how many users you can stuff into one Notes server.
And yes, some organizations do have this many users per box.
Well, it is a bit bloated 'cause it can do so much. It's rather like that big fat Swiss Army knife weighing down your pocket.
If all you need is ascii email, well, it's overkill; but, should you wish to build collabortive apps that run in browsers and in the Notes client, use group scheduling, email with lots of code embedded in the mail memos, integrate with just about every RDBMS, then Notes/Domino will do the trick.
Well, Notes6 (aka RNext) will not have to deal with the OS/2 PM, as I am told. So, the UI folks at Lotus/Iris Associates are cleaning up a lot of those old hangers on.
Also, rumor has it that the Powers That Be at IBM won't ship RNext 'til it is actually finished, unlike R5 which snuck out the door a bit to soon.
Many a folk complain that the UI in Notes uses many a convention that errs from the well trodden path of M$. Well, of course! Notes clients had to accomodate OS/2, Mac, Win 3.1, et cetera.
And yes, the server is very stable now. But it is only as stable as the OS. Run the Domino server on top of Wintendo and what do you get? Run in on an IBM s390 machine and...well, you get what you pay for.
Oh, by the way, it runs very well under Red Hat, too.