I worked at a school district that tried to replace a stable Groupwise setup with Lotus Notes 5.0. The two big problems we had were that the mail web client sucked. Its totally Java based which would not be bad but it was very slow and IMHO was not useable on a dial-up connection ( a lot of our users wanted to use the web client from home). Groupwise's web mail was much better.
Also, we found that the Mac client was not usable on 95% of the Macs we had because of hardware / OS version requirements. In a school district with about 60% Macs vs. PC's this was a major problem.
Of course Notes is much more than just a mail program but I think if the school district had it to do over again they would have stayed with Groupwise.
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Lotus Notes runs on Linux. If I was doing the comparison to Exchange that's what I'd use.
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I worked at a school district that tried to replace a stable Groupwise setup with Lotus Notes 5.0. The two big problems we had were that the mail web client sucked. Its totally Java based which would not be bad but it was very slow and IMHO was not useable on a dial-up connection ( a lot of our users wanted to use the web client from home). Groupwise's web mail was much better.
Also, we found that the Mac client was not usable on 95% of the Macs we had because of hardware / OS version requirements. In a school district with about 60% Macs vs. PC's this was a major problem.
Of course Notes is much more than just a mail program but I think if the school district had it to do over again they would have stayed with Groupwise.