IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange?
Stiff competition continues for many years between two major leaders in collaboration solutions: IBM and Microsoft. Does the choice of a platform influence the normal user? Both software giants are striving to improve work conveniences for Internet end users. Considering that the value of products is roughly the same around the world, new ideas for platform integration have emerged. Interesting projects have been carried out in both companies.
Free add-in for Outlook: Notes Connector
Microsoft supports the free plug-in for the Microsoft Outlook client, which enables connection to the Lotus Domino collaboration / message server. Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino enables the use of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 to access email messages, calendar, address book, and to-do items on an IBM Lotus Domino version 5.x or version 6.x server.
Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1
The new IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 provides the solution for companies looking to migrate from Microsoft Exchange, but do not want to retrain their users. Now company employees can continue to use their existing Outlook client for messaging, calendaring and scheduling, and personal information management (PIM) services, replacing the Microsoft Exchange server infrastructure with Lotus Domino servers, which run on hardware and the operating system of your choice, including Linux. .
Support platforms
For Lotus Domino 6.5: Microsoft Windows family (95 SE, 98, NT SP6a, 2000 SP3, XP, 2003); Sun Solaris; Linux, United Linux.
For Lotus Notes 6.5: Microsoft Windows family; Macintosh OS X (10.1 and 10.2).
For Lotus Domino Web Access 6.5: Microsoft Windows family; Red Hat Linux, v. 7.2 or 8.0, SuSE Linux, v. 8.0, United Linux, v. 1.0. It is compatible with the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 5.5 and 6.0; Mozilla, v. 1.3.1 Linux client.