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Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange

Messaging systems went toe-to-toe in years leading to today’s real-time communications bundle battle.
By John Fontana , Network World , 10/26/2007
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This one can back up to Lotus cc:Mail vs. Microsoft Mail, two early e-mail systems finding their way in a new world called LAN-based communications. While cc:Mail had a devout and passionate following, which formed an angry mob at their annual user conference when the death of the product was announced, the real arguments didn’t start until Notes and Exchange emerged from the ashes.

Eric Arnum, who was the Ernie Pyle of the early Notes/Exchange wars with his now-defunct Electronic Mail and Messaging and Messaging Online newsletters, tabulated seat counts from the trenches for a captivated audience. Installed base numbers and arguments over who had the best implementations of the latest Internet protocols have now disappeared into real-time communications bundles where Notes and Exchange are but a piece of a larger whole in their respective platforms.

Still today, Notes users remain the most passionate, clubbing IBM back into line each time Notes wavers from the center. Exchange, once anointed the leader of Microsoft’s unified communications caravan, now is just one part of it. But this is an argument with two winners. Both platforms deliver rich revenue streams for their respective companies that would make small countries blush.

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Exchange 2007 virtualizedBy Anon on June 9, 2009, 11:39 amThe note that was made about Exchange 2007 not being supported in a virtual environment is not correct...it is and I've done many implementations this way and have...

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I am surprised to see thatBy Anon on February 4, 2009, 9:37 amI am surprised to see that there is a good amount of support for Notes / Domino. I spent 7 years both supporting and as an end user in a Notes environment and it...

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Exchange 2007 Vs Ibm Lotus NotesBy Anon on January 6, 2009, 4:16 amI don;t understand the link between the backend Mail system and the User experiance...

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Glad you aren't trading for meBy Anonymous on July 7, 2008, 8:39 amDod you even bother to figure out why the screen hangs ? Its not part of the product design or any normal implementation...Your IT infrastructure can be poorly maintained...

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Wake up!By Anonymous on May 26, 2008, 12:51 pmam a trader, have seen crap email systems alright, starting with bloomberg's... Lotus Notes is a total POS beyond debate... causes screen hangs all the time which...

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