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About 2=3 years ago, Exchange surpased Notes in seats, meaninging that 
more
people use Exchange than Notes. But that probably doesn't mean a whole 
lot.
What should matter is which fits your real and perceived business needs

for
the next few years? That should be the basis for your decsision.

Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE MCT
Senior Network Administrator
Peregrine Systems
Atlanta, GA
http://www.peregrine.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Nelson [mailto:MNelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:12 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Lotus Notes vs. Exchange
> 
> 
> Thanks for the responses.  Now that I've received a total of 
> 2 responses ;)
> what do you all think the overall market percentage lotus 
> notes holds is?
> I've heard 30%.  I tend to think that's a little high, but then 
again,
> that's why I'm asking!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -----------------------------
> Marty Nelson, MCSE, MCP+I, A+
> Network Administrator
> Transdyn Controls, Inc
> mnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----------------------------
> 
> Nice doggie.  - Famous Last Words
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Monahan [mailto:CMonahan@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:09 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Lotus Notes vs. Exchange
> 
> 
> I can't comment as a mail admin, but as a sysadmin and mail 
> user I prefer
> notes.  Note, this was under v4.5.  I haven't been near it since.
> 
> User:
>   -Synchronisation with remote computer much better.
>   -I happen to like the client interface better.
> 
> Admin: 
>   -I prefer to run individual mailboxes instead of a single 
> information
> store despited the extra storage.  It's easy to see who has 
> big mailboxes.
>   -Migrating is as easy as stopping Notes, copying the file, 
> and starting
> Notes (and probably a change to the directory, aka the 'Name 
> and Address
> Book').  You can use an open file manager to back up the 
> individual mail
> database files instead of an agent.  Actually, for backup we used to
> replication all the mail servers to one server and then stop 
> Notes on that
> server to do the backup.  The mail admin then had a quick 
> place to recover a
> user's mail db from the day before.
>   -I think there were two registry entries, performance 
> related, for the
> server.  Everthing was kept in either the directory or an .ini file.
>   -Recovery was as easy as 1)clean install of NT, 2) clean 
> install of Notes,
> 3) add Notes server to directory, 4) begin restoring Notes 
> db's.  Important
> point: Notes is up and running during the db restore process. 
>  If someone
> tries to access their mail the server says file not found or 
> something.
> After the db is restored they get in.  I lost one server 
> completely and
> while I was restoring the individual databases (step 4 from 
> above) users
> whose database file was restored were using mail.  The data 
> was on three
> tapes, so I had the local drive restoring one tape, and two 
> other servers
> restoring to the Notes server over the network from their tape 
drives.
> Database were restored in alphabetical order from the three 
> tapes.  So the
> A's, J's, and R's (roughly) got access to their mail before 
> the I's, Q's,
> and Z's.
> 
> my nickel
> 
> 
> hth
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Nelson [mailto:MNelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:28 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Lotus Notes vs. Exchange
> 
> 
> What is the consensus regarding Lotus i-notes vs. Exchange 
> 2000 or even 5.5?
> I am forced to ask this, so please try and keep the flames to 
> a minimum :).
> Management wants to upgrade our mail system (currently 
> Exchange 5.0) to
> something bigger and better (good idea huh!).  We currently 
> have around 100
> users, as well as a dozen or so external who also use our mail 
system.
> 
> I want to go the Exchange 2000 route, but as usual, they want 
> options.  I
> would greatly appreciate your thoughts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Marty Nelson, MCSE, MCP+I, A+
> Network Administrator
> Transdyn Controls, Inc.
> mnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Murphy's Second Fundamental Law: Before anything can be done, 
> something else
> must be done first!
>


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