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My company is contemplating a switch from MS Exchange/Outlook to Lotus Notes/Domino. I was wondering if anyone has had to make this change, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. Any opinions on the two products would be welcomed also. We are in an MS active domain network.
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by lordinfidel
While M$ may be the big bad wolf.
There is a reason why Exchange is the Flagship of all e-mail servers. It is by far the leading, stable and scalable of groupware mail servers on the market today.
Why would you want to take a few steps backwards?
by remaind
From everything I've heard about the two, it gave me the impression that Lotus notes was more powerful, easier to administer, easier to use than outlook. The only advantage that Exchange has is that it has a bigger user base. The reason I brought up the topic here is that all of the reviews and comparisons I found seemed to have been paid for by IBM, bringing their credibility down. What I'm looking for is some evidence to back up an opinion either way, so that I can feel more comfortable about a decision
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by lordinfidel
A long long time ago.
But 2 of my counterparts at other enterprise level networks use notes and they hate it. They have been fighting with management to move to exchange.
Everyone else I know uses exchange. We have several of them here clustered.
As far as power, Notes and Exchange is only going to be as powerful as the hardware they are running on.
Although I have installed and currently running a pvt clients exch server on a dual PII 350. And they are happy.
Exchange is one of those few products (MS and others) that actually conforms to the RFC's. And interchanges with almost all e-mail clients out there (assuming your using POP or IMAMP, obviously using it in native mode you have to use outlook).
The scripting/custom programming that can be done for exchange and outlook is pretty much only limitied to your programmers expertise and creativity.
Depending on which version you get, standard vs enterprise, will dictate how well it will scale. Standard has a 16 gig Information Store limit. Enterprise has no limit on the amount of storage.
I just know that 3/4's of the time when we get complaints from users telling us that there is a problem sending e-mail. It is usually because the remote system is lotus notes and is having a problem communicating with us. Just an observation.
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