Lotus confirms Netware support to end on Domino
by Barry De La Rosa, PC Week UK
Lotus officially confirmed last week that it would drop
support for Netware on Domino, while adding support for
Linux.
The move reflects the feelings of many users that Netware
is increasingly irrelevant to Notes installations.
Running Domino on a dedicated Netware server is the only
way to get it to run smoothly, according to George
MacDonald, technical specialist at global IT consultancy
Bond Technologies.
"NetWare is the worst platform for Notes," he said. "It's
very memory consuming, unstable, and needs a dedicated
server. NT does file and print better than Netware does app
serving."
Simon Moores, chairman of the Lotus User Group, said that
interest in Netware as an application server platform for
Notes has almost entirely disappeared.
"Netware, from a Notes admin's point of view, has become
a non-issue," said Moores.
But Derek Venter, Novell's marketing development
manager, claimed that Lotus would change its mind, as
Netware is doing better than NT.
"At the time of the decision to drop Netware [almost two
years ago], Lotus was under pressure to cut costs," he
argued. "But IDC's recent server operating environment
report shows NT sales growing by only 10 per cent
compared to Netware's 34 per cent. Netware and NDS are
important in a Notes environment. It would cost you
substantially more to do it with NT."
Jim Moffit, Lotus product marketing manager, agreed that
Notes works well on a Netware network, but said that
running it on a Netware server is not what customers
wanted. Moffat argued that Linux is more appropriate as a
Domino platform.
"Netware is the old story, Linux the new," he said. "As far
as platforms go we're agnostic, [but] Netware is the least
performing."
Moores added: "There is a rise in interest in Linux among
Exchange and NT users. As a person who runs both
Exchange and Notes User Groups, the growth in interest in
Linux is remarkable."
Robin Bloor, chief executive of Bloor Research, agreed. "NT
has virtually destroyed Netware as an application server.
Now Linux is eating into NT's app server market in a similar
way," he said.
For more stories, see this week's issue of PC Week UK
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