IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange?

IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange?

Stiff competition continues for many years between two major leaders in collaboration solutions: IBM and Microsoft. If the choice of a platform influences the common user? The two software giants strive to improve working conveniences for Internet end users. Considering that the value of the products is approximately the same all over the world, new ideas of platform integration have appeared. 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 messaging/collaboration server. Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino enables you to use 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 away from Microsoft Exchange, but don’t want to retrain their users. Company employees can now continue to use their existing Outlook client for messaging, calendar and scheduling, and personal information management (PIM) services, by replacing the Microsoft Exchange server infrastructure with Lotus Domino servers, running on the 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); Sol Solaris; Linux, UnitedLinux.

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.