Just wondering how Notes 6 is being received in the market. Are people moving to or away from Notes/Domino 6? I’d like to get a feeling from ‘real users’ in this forum. I have loved the product since 4.6 and just wonder how its doing out there. Thanks for your commments.
Subject: as far as I can tell,
ND6 acceptance is good. I hear people are migrating to ND6. I’ve seen Microsoft lose a couple of battles, where they may have won against R5. Endusers like ND6 better than R5 and that’s always good, isn’t it?
Subject: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
We are a smaller installation (225 users) but we made the leap. Notes has always been ahead of MS for groupware/collaberation, but the mail client was not as smooth. With Notes 6 I no longer appologize to my end users for email. It’s top notch and better in many respects than other mail clients.
Subject: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
I was surprised and encouraged to hear from a main Distributor in the UK that Lotus Software was proving to be the No.1 revenue earning IBM Software brand in terms of licenses sold. this Disti specialise in IBM stuff big style.
They say a substantial majority of these sales are Notes Domino 6. This is a worldwide major player Distributor I shall avoid naming.
This cheered the cockles somewhat.
Greg
Subject: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
Can’t speak from a Developer view, but from an administrator and enduser viewpoint Notes 6 is much more stable and has nice user features like preview and save without attachments. I have seen only two bugs: Single logon doesn’t work with XPpro and very rarely a sticky mouse cursor.
Subject: RE: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
Single logon doesn’t work with XPpro
Can you give specific details about this?
Subject: RE: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
I haven’t had any problems using single logon with XP Pro. I just make sure the username matches the Notes username and of course the passwords match.
I did notice that you need to restart the XP machine after you turn on the single-logon function to make it work.
Subject: Notes/Domino 6 acceptance in the Market
I am an ISV, and sell a lot of software to companies around the world who use Lotus Notes. My impression is that Notes/Domino 6 is much more of a hit than R5 ever was, and my contacts at IBM tend to confirm that.
Subject: One unhappy camper here…
I’m a network admin for a small city govt who just recently migrated to Notes/Domino 6 from MS Exchange 5. If I had to do it all over again, I would not. As much as I disliked Exchange, and I’m one of the biggest MS-haters on the planet who was initially thrilled at the prospect of getting rid of an MS product off our network, in hindsight there have been just far too many problems with our migration to make me (and my users) very happy about having chosen to migrate in the first place.
We’re finally up and running on Notes now, but still have quite a long list of usability issues that are mostly unsolveable.
Subject: Please post more details here…
Subject: agreed, we can only help you with specifics.
Subject: Not fair, Neal…
As you pointed out yourself, you were forced to migrated under clearly unadvisable circumstances, without experienced support or substantial training. Given the complexity of your objectives, your target was overambitious (not by you, but by the decision makers there.)
Tell me, did you implement your entire Exchange 5 environment without training or vendor support?