Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, I'm going to say that
that'll be a tough compare since Notes/Domino maps much more closely
to Exchange and Groupwise in terms of functionality.  IE, it's a
groupware/messaging/collaboration environment rather than a proper
directory service.  In most cases, in fact, a Notes/Domino environment
will run on top of AD just like Exchange does, though I think you can
hook Domino into a Linux infra as well.

My personal recollection of Domino, though this is from several revs
ago, was that it was close-but-not-quite-so-good as Outlook in terms
of being a cool messaging client, but it gave you more options in
terms of collaboration apps.  (Sharepoint has likely rendered this
comparison obsolete in the intervening years since I was a Notes
admin.)

A quick Google doesn't return what I'd consider a vendor-neutral
comparison of Exchange and Domino, but here's the market-speak from
both sides of the house.  (Maybe compare them and split the
difference.  :-)):

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/domino/inotes/compare.html
http://www.lotus.com/lotus/offering1.nsf/wdocs/messagingcompetitive?OpenDocument&cwesite=lotusnotesdom
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/compare/METAEx2k3vNotes.mspx

- Laura

On 10/5/05, Tony Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me at an independent source of information on the
> capabilities and limitations of the Notes/Domino directory as compared with
> AD?
>
> Tony


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