Features Lost moving from Lotus Notes to ".Net"?

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There is some consideration at my company to move some or all of the Lotus Notes databases to a “.Net” environment: C# instead of LotusScript and Formula, SQL Server instead of Domino. I suspect this is an ongoing consideration at a number of companies.

One of the possible solutions to aid converting the Lotus Notes/Domino databases to “.Net” is a service provided by company that uses a tool called “Composer for Lotus Notes”. On the surface (since I have not actually used it) it looks impressive - converting most LotusScript and Formula directly into C#, which is pretty easy to follow.

However, I have received no answers as to how to provide two features of Lotus Notes upon which we rely: replication and Role based security.

Has anyone any experience with how well, if at all, SQL server based databases can handle hourly replication (as from North America to Europe and Asia)? How it handles replication or save conflicts?

Has anyone any experience with how to implement Role based security ( as opposed to User Name or User group security) in a “.Net” environment?

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Subject: Features Lost moving from Lotus Notes to “.Net”?

Interesting, this. Checking things out in Google gets this article:

http://oceania.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=323679

Which seems to indicate that the this product is at an early stage in its development.

Call me an old sceptic, but this has been tried before by Microsoft, and it didn’t work too well . . .

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Subject: Features Lost moving from Lotus Notes to “.Net”?

Might start w/ a search on “web.config”. This xml file defines, at the application level, many settings including some of authentication handling for .net apps.

And also look at the other config files:

As far as replicating SQL database and thinking of how to mimic scheduled agents in a domino environment, you might try a search for “DTS”:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933484(SQL.80).aspx