Re: Email on the Iseries or not

I agree with you.  Domino is a complete package for an office.  We run 
three Domino servers on our 810.  We use LEI to write directly to DB2 
on our application server.  We support about 400 Notes clients and the 
dependablity is outstanding.  Yes, you will pay more to run it on 
iSeries, it does chew on the processor a bit and disk is typically 
more expensive.  
I guess Linux is a good alternative, if you have Linux experience in 
your shop, but otherwise it's just another thing you gotta learn so 
might as well learn Domino.

m.

> 
> message: 1
> date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:09:44 -0500
> from: ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> subject: RE: Email on the Iseries or not
> 
> 
> I love Domino, but it's definitely not cheap or simple to get 
> into.  If you
> have needs above and beyond basic email (calendar, scheduling,
> collaboration, workflow apps, agents, replication, etc.), I don't 
> thinkExchange even begins to compare as a 'solution' for any size 
> company.
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>RE: Email on the Iseries or not     
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> 
> David,
> Out of curiosity, what is it about Domino that you do not like? We 
> havestarted to compare Domino/Notes to Exchange (I detest the 
constant
> issues that seem to occur with Exchange) and your feedback would be
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces+dpalme=cwtruck.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces+dpalme=cwtruck.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of
> David Gibbs
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:04 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Email on the Iseries or not
> 
> 
> Pat Barber wrote:
> > If you are in favor on email on the Iseries...why ???
> 
> Personally I would recommend against it.
> 
> I've never really liked email on the iSeries ... and I truly do 
> not like
> Domino (in general).
> 
> I would suggest you take a bare bones machine and install your 
> favoriteLinux distro on it and set that up as your mail server.
> 
> There are a number of very powerful smtp, pop3, imap, and webmail
> servers available.
> 
> david
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