TL;DR: Rant (bragging) about Domino. Nothing to see here. Move along.
On 9/23/20 1:05 PM, Joe Hamelin via mailop wrote:
The old saying is: Domino is a database that wants to do mail, while Exchange is a mail server wanting to be a database.
I've not heard that before. It is *SO* true.Though, IMHO, "Domino is a */distributed/* database that wants to do mail, while Exchange is a mail server wanting to be a database." is more accurate.
I could do more things with Notes ""applications (databases) in the fat Notes client across multiple Domino servers than I have seen in anything since.
I had multiple team rooms (document library), vacation planner, company address book, email all replicating from multiple servers to Lotus Notes 8.x / 9.x on my RHEL 5 (?) notebook (~6-7 years ago) with less fuss than Outlook normally has pulling email from Exchange on the LAN. The Domino servers were spread around the continent.
I was especially proud of how my email application (database) replicated with the multiple Domino servers (primary and backup) holding my mailbox. My local mail database was ~2 GB while the server copy was < 300 MB (disk quota). I didn't have to remove attachments. In many ways, the server copy of my mailbox was sort of like a POP3 mailbox (but with IMAP features). New email replicated from the server to my notebook. Deletes did not replicate from the server to my notebook. Deletes from my notebook did replicate to the server. The server purged anything older than 14 / 21 / 30 days (I played with different settings). Both instances of the database were effectively the same database with different data in them. My local database could grow unbounded by anything other than disk space / max file size. The server database stayed well under quota. I didn't need to worry about removing or loosing attachments. It worked BEAUTIFULLY!!! I've never seen anything else work half as well.
On line vs off line? Piece of cake. I had a drop down box of (what were called) locations. Office (on-line) / Home (VPN) / Offline. Notes even handled being started in the wrong one gracefully. It would try for 5-15 seconds (I don't remember which) and then say "Hey ... we're having trouble communicating, what would you like to do? Work offline or change locations? Shutting off wireless after Notes was open was about the same thing.
About the only thing that I had a problem with when going offline was the applications (databases) that I wasn't allowed to replicate.
Also, searches were SUPER FAST against the local replica on an SSD.Ya. Domino is a distributed database that wants to do mail, while Exchange is a mail server that wants to be a database.
It's too bad that Domino is dying. :-( -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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