Domino Mail Management

Lotus Notes traveller works very nicely with the iPhone. When the iPad comes out, it would be great to have something more like a Notes client on it. Something that allows for more multi-touch features. Does anybody know if this is in the IBM plans?

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I have attended several legal conferences over the last several months and have learned that most organizations still do not have in place a retention policy for email or for any other electronic documents.  This continues to be true despite best efforts by IT staff to assist management in the creation and implementation of these policies.  It’s hard to imagine something more frustrating than a situation in which implementation of a policy and/or tool would help both IT and legal carry out their missions and yet it’s never carried out.

Don’t despair!  With each passing month, there are new federal court decisions punishing this failure at ever greater cost.  It’s only a matter of time before your organization will take notice.

Michelle Fine, Esq
Director, Avalon Business Systems 
 

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We're back at Lotusphere, checking out what's new, what's coming down the pike. At this morning's keynote, William Shatner was brilliant.

If you're here in Orlando, come see us at booth 315. If not, you're not alone. The economy seems to have kept a lot of the Loti away. I'll try to share some of my impressions with you. First, I'm seeing that the constant improvements to ReduceMailPro since 1999 keep us well ahead of the newcomers with their beta products. I'm sure we'll come back with ideas for even more improvements, but we appear to be leading the way on handling archives, attachments, and journals for storage savings and on managing the ever-growing risk of compliance search time.

 

 It seems to me that our mail management product ReduceMail Pro Attach still beats DAOS. 

ReduceMail Pro Attach consolidates attachments across multiple servers (including, of course, cluster servers), attachment full text indices are consolidated unlike in DAOS, and ReduceMail Pro does not need transactional logging if that is a concern.


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I have been to Lotusphere many times and everytime I ask myself:

Where is the "sphere"?

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Have a look at the article on http://linux.sys-con.com/node/1053517  .  Somebody ought to write a response. 

I think it is a pretty damming article since the writer starts out saying that yes, he was a Notes admin, and yes, Notes was great.  BUT ...


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I guess with the competition from Open Office and Google Microsoft had to give in:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-microsoft14-2009jul14,0,6321375.story

This should free up some cash for Notes!

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Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud computing centers," said Parrella, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual property unit at the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The immediate threat will be attacks to steal data from the servers they are stored on, either remotely or by an insider or someone who gains access to the data center, he said. Later on it's likely any stolen data could be pirated, he said. 

(see http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-319808.html ).

Is the cloud security model as good as the Domino server security model?

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I had a little time to check out Office 2007 and Open Office.

To me, Excel 2007 is very confusing, has way too many tabs and you still can't calculate your mortgage payment in a simple way.  I tried Open Office Calc and it looks much more like the old Office 2003 but the macro language is no longer VisualBasic.

Word 2007 had the great promise of organizing references and sources.  That is great if you are a scientist writing papers and that is what I do some of the time.  But my experience with Word 2007 was terrible!  I did all my references accordingly and then when I had to submit it I resaved it in Word 2003 (Springer Publishing won't take 2007) and almost all the references were misnumbered! 

Open Office Write seems fine so far, nothing complicated.  It has the look of Word 2003 so it won't require much training (Office 2007 requires a lot of training).  Open Office Calc looks like Excel 2003 and is as easy to use.

Importantly, Open Office is free!

Tell me what are your experiences with trying Open Office (Symphony is one version of it).  It seems to me that Microsoft is very vulnerable since I believe MS Office is one of their big money makers.

It may be a way to stop migrations to Outlook - any thoughts are much appreciated.  We can use more arguments against moving off of Notes!

Eugen

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Have a look at their website http://fixoutlook.org (warning: my IE 8 does not like this website).  I know there is an issue in Notes when it comes to displaying and editing MIME using rich text format and I guess Outlook has the same issue.  Does Notes handle html mail better or worse than Outlook?  Is there a way for the next version of Notes to excel here?

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