Re: [Sheflug] Lotus Notes on Linux

["Tom Burke" <tom.burke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ibbotson" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Lotus Notes on Linux


> About two or three years ago a local programmer from Sheffield (Totley
> I think) came to one of our meetings and asked me about Lotus Notes
> and MySQL integration and who might be interested.  I pointed him at
> the MySQL team and IBM.  Looks like my own suggestion has been
> listened to.  You CAN change the world if you try hard enough ?
> Well, hopefully anyway.
>

That may have been me..... although in the end my contribution to the 
development process for our new version was limited to listening and 
understanding concepts. My main role is application admin, plus residual 
Notes stuff.

We still have our application running on the Notes platform but we haven't 
won any new customers in that environment for a number of years (most of the 
old customers are still using it, however). In the last year or so we have 
won over a dozen new customers with the new version of the app developed in 
JSP, MySQL backend and running on Tomcat. We're agnostic as regards server 
technology - we have one customer who runs it in-house on a Windows 2003 
server - but most of our customers use our hosted provision which runs on 
Fedora Core 6.

And yes I might turn up again in February.

Tom 


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