Tag: Notes

  • DominoKeys.com » Dear Lotus; c/o: Mike Rhodin, GM of IBM/Lotus

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    Simon Scullion

    Kevin Hansen in an open letter to Mike Rhodin: You have the world’s attention at the moment. For the sake of all of us who live and breath Lotus Notes/Domino, please make full use of this brief and rare opportunity. Out of a strong belief that Notes 8 is the most important release of Notes…

  • The Notes Domino 8 proposition

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    Simon Scullion

    Peter O’Kelly sums up the key strengths of the Lotus story and how that faces off to Microsoft’s offering: I think there’s more to the story, however: if you consider the Eclipse.org-based foundation in Notes 8, along with the OpenOffice.org-derived Lotus Symphony “productivity editors”, the fact that Notes 8 runs on multiple platforms (eventually multiple…

  • Revisited: What am I missing? (admin help [still] needed!)

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    Simon Scullion

    Thanks to those who responded to my previous bleat for help, I have been back to try and get this working but still no luck! The situation is as follows: Domino 7 sever running on RHEL as a guest in VMware I can ping from the host both IP address and hostname of the guest…

  • New to Me . . . too!

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    Simon Scullion

    Still catching up with email and blog reading, not helped by the excitement over the Notes Domino 8 release while I was away! This post from Michael Smelser caught my eye: The functionality I am referring to is running the Notes client in “Kiosk” mode, that is running a Notes application as if it were…

  • IBM support for Ubuntu

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    Simon Scullion

    James Governor of RedMonk raised a question that has come up a few times in the Lotus blogsphere, on the subject of Ubuntu as an IBM supported OS. I mentioned the fact that DB2 is supported on Ubuntu, a fact which doesn’t really fit with some of the justification for not supporting Lotus Notes and…

  • Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 on Ubuntu

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    Simon Scullion

    So, tonight I managed to have another go at getting the Lotus Notes 8 client running under Ubuntu. Disclaimer: I do realise this is not supported, and I agree with John and his rules of engagement, curiosity has just got the better of me! Thanks to Nathan’s tip on the Beta forum, I manually created…