Notes on Linux! ... Again!

My last session of the day was a showcase of Notes & Domino on Linux. I've been running the Notes 8.5 Beta client on ubuntu for a while so the step by step install was old news, but the tools and tips on running the server on SLES 10 are certainly welcome.

Assuming we consolidate our Notes environment (whether tactically or strategically) having a supported build on Linux would make our Processing colleagues very happy that we weren't cluttering up the datacenter with lots of Windows servers, and we'd probably get deeper technical support from them on the Linux platform.

As you can run several domino partitions on a single linux box, it would probably be cheaper too!

As an aside, it was interesting to see the presenter using Virtual Box (a free product from Sun) to virtualise an XP operating system. It allows a 'seamless mode' similar to Citrix where the virtualised OS is hidden but the application window appears to be running natively on the Linux OS. Microsoft announced something similar that we blogged about from the MMS conference but I have my doubts that it will be free! I'll be having a play when I finally get back to the UK and undoubtedly Malc will now tell me that he's been using it for years, but I can think of some great innovation work around this functionality!