Well, as it turns out, you are particularly dense this morning!;-) Just kidding... Seriously though the difference is the Evolution with leapfrog both of these systems you mentioned in several ways. Here's a few reasons why, IMHO:
First, Evolution's indexing will not only be more efficient, but it will scale far better than [Lotus] Notes currently does. I have used Notes for quite a while and it is a PIG big time. There is nothing efficient about the indexing capabilities of Notes compared to the tradeoff in performance you need just to get Notes Client running on a system.
Furthermore, Evolution, will be an open source venture (obviously), that will provide an open foundation for universal messaging of not just email as De Icaza says, but also for Instant Message Sessions [potentially] or IRC sessions, etc, and Evolution will "digest" all this info. It will do this with ease, and be scaleable to the point of not requiring you to have a couple hundred Megs of RAM to handle a couple Gigs of information in your store. I haven't witnessed anything like this in Notes, Groupwise, Exchange, or any other mainsteam messaging offering yet, which are all bloated with features I cannot remove, and not scaleable to handle modern email loads.
Also, being that Evolution will be componetized, it will make Web access to these evolution databases extremely trivial (or at least it should) which combined with XML can eventually be one of the most robust groupware products in existence.
It sounds like innovation to me - but it will be a different story if it never materializes...
The reasons that this is important should be obvious. The amount of applications available for S/390 once it is running linux is unspeakable. What do people think the ratio of native S/390 OS developers is compared to the amount of people working on the linux platform? This is the most important thing if S/390 is to survive as a platform.
the problem isn't the overbloat by itself in any application that is the problem. The problem is the market share dominance that forces people to use something which is overbloated like in the case of Microsoft "Wurd"... Last time I looked nobody told you that you have to use X (and if they did you can modify the source to streamline it down to what you want), but my company sure as shit rails on me about having to use Microsoft "productivity" apps (if that isn't an oxymoron in and of itself).
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I thought that putting it into production was how you tested it! ;-)
Last time I checked, this didn't work with many proxy servers including squid.
you should really start here... http://www.trgnet.com/products.htm
First, Evolution's indexing will not only be more efficient, but it will scale far better than [Lotus] Notes currently does. I have used Notes for quite a while and it is a PIG big time. There is nothing efficient about the indexing capabilities of Notes compared to the tradeoff in performance you need just to get Notes Client running on a system.
Furthermore, Evolution, will be an open source venture (obviously), that will provide an open foundation for universal messaging of not just email as De Icaza says, but also for Instant Message Sessions [potentially] or IRC sessions, etc, and Evolution will "digest" all this info. It will do this with ease, and be scaleable to the point of not requiring you to have a couple hundred Megs of RAM to handle a couple Gigs of information in your store. I haven't witnessed anything like this in Notes, Groupwise, Exchange, or any other mainsteam messaging offering yet, which are all bloated with features I cannot remove, and not scaleable to handle modern email loads.
Also, being that Evolution will be componetized, it will make Web access to these evolution databases extremely trivial (or at least it should) which combined with XML can eventually be one of the most robust groupware products in existence.
It sounds like innovation to me - but it will be a different story if it never materializes...
Cheers.
The reasons that this is important should be obvious. The amount of applications available for S/390 once it is running linux is unspeakable. What do people think the ratio of native S/390 OS developers is compared to the amount of people working on the linux platform? This is the most important thing if S/390 is to survive as a platform.
the problem isn't the overbloat by itself in any application that is the problem. The problem is the market share dominance that forces people to use something which is overbloated like in the case of Microsoft "Wurd"... Last time I looked nobody told you that you have to use X (and if they did you can modify the source to streamline it down to what you want), but my company sure as shit rails on me about having to use Microsoft "productivity" apps (if that isn't an oxymoron in and of itself).