In a recent encounter on Twitter I was discussing with an individual who harbored the false perception that no one uses iNotes or Domino Web Access or Webmail or whatever you want to call the browser based access to one's Domino mail.
Should have asked him if he meant no one uses OWA, the Outlook Web Access.
Many college campuses use Webmail, as do numerous hospitals, logistics companies, manufacturing plants and regular everyday users.
Why? Because they can do so with little effort on the administrator's side, especially in R8 where there is only one template now for web and non-web usage.
Compared to Microsoft where one usually has separate servers specially setup to run OWA, Lotus Domino servers can handle the dual connections of web and Notes client access. Admittedly some earlier servers, say over 5 years ago, limited the #'s on a machine, today I have a client with over 2,000 people(we expect scaling to 2,500-3,000) on one mail server and it houses multiple clients, templates and access form the web, phones and notes clients.
Oh and it runs on Linux and did this as an R7 and now even better as an R8 server.
If you have a Microsoft Exchange server which can do all of this and does...let's hear about it.
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