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Commontime Vs Lotus Notes Traveler

John Jardin |   | Tags:  mobile smart_phones calendaring contacts mail lotus | Comments (2)  |  Visits (624)
Hi All. I've recently had a huge demand on companies wanting to go mobile with mail, etc. I've been playing around with mNotes (commontime) and reading up on Lotus Notes Traveler.

Here's a basic rundown at present of the software mentioned above:

Commontime mSuite (includes mNotes)

- Compatible with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 ; Palm OS ; Symbian
- Synchronizes directly on the server
- Allows deployment of Notes Applications to mobile devices
- Compatible with R6.5 and up (could be R5 and up....not too sure)

Lotus Notes Traveler

- Only works with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (based on IBM information page)
- Runs as a Domino Server Task
- Cannot deploy applications to mobile devices
- Compatible with R8.0.1 and above

It obviously gets more technical than this, and there's where you find that there are some unfortunate restrictions with Traveler.

I'm currently leaning towards commontime at present, firstly because it supports deployment of notes applications, secondly because it's compatible with previous versions of notes. The only difference worth mentioning, is that your Lotus Notes User License acts as a Traveler License, which means off-hand that no additional costs are involved with Lotus Notes Traveler, where with commontime there is a license cost.

I could be mistaken. Your Thoughts?

I've been fortunate to try out commontime mNotes for a month on my Tytn 2, and it really impressed me.
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1 Scott Hooks commented   Permalink No RatingsRatings 0

We have had some good and some bad experiences with Commontime. Having to do device resets seem to be a common issue with Commontime. We have found Good Mobile Messaging to be a lot better. Good luck!

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2 Justyn Roberts commented   Permalink No RatingsRatings 0

Hi John.
Really, my take (No bias here as a CommonTime employee;)

If you only need to mobilize a handful of users, traveler is a great product.Its quite obvious that it was developed as a counter tick-in-box against MSexchange direct push, but scaling it into your organisation lets it down somewhat, by not having features such as security policy enforcement, or device management which helps you quickly provision manage and maintain.
Also as you have highlighted you might want to consider using your device for more than email,quite rightly.
mForms is a component of the mSuite offering enabling rapid application development within the Domino Designer,with integration into device features including Camera,GPS, etc.

Scott: Sorry you had a less than perfect experience with our software - time passes and we learn from our mistakes - mSuite5 (for corporate deployments) is being released very shortly, and we are all pretty fired up as to stability and functionality of the software within the sometimes changing goalposts and constraints of Windows Mobile and Symbian series 60 platforms.

If you do need any further help, technical or otherwise, feel free to drop me a mail, Justyn-AT-commontime-DOT-com - If anyone else would like a trial of either mNotes5 (for wireless and desktop) or mSuite (for corporate deployments) please let me know and I will make sure it happens..

First Post on here :) No Spam intended.

Justyn

Justyn Roberts
Sales Engineering Manager
CommonTime

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