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Comment on Notes 8.5.x + XenApp 6 + Quickr + FileNet = no sale? by Mike Burford

Mike Burford — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:06:29 +0000

Thanks Peter, it is a real pity. The customer’s incumbent IT provider are a Microsoft shop and have already pointed out that the Outlook/MS Office requirements within a XenApp environment are half that of the Notes Standard client. It sure does make the sale harder to achieve.

Comment on Notes 8.5.x + XenApp 6 + Quickr + FileNet = no sale? by Peter Meuser

Peter Meuser — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:36:30 +0000

Mike, the problems of Notes/Quickr with XenApp are well known. It seems, that IBM does not have a strategic focus on terminla server support, as you can also read here: Comments #3/4 @EdBrill's In comparision to the Microsoft client stack you have to size the Citrix farm twice as big with Notes standard. I am very sorry about that, too, because I have to help another IBM customer to migrate his Notes-only environment to a new platform... Peter

Comment on Notes 8.5.x + XenApp 6 + Quickr + FileNet = no sale? by GarryL

GarryL — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:57:00 +0000

Sorry to hear the problems – sounds as though up until that point it was going well.

I don’t have an answer but have to say I can’t understand why IBM does not put more of an effort into ensuring it’s products work in TS/Citrix/VDI enviroments. The number of these are only going to increase.

Comment on Bold 9700, Garmin GPS, DAOS scare, and Blink! by Robert Read

Robert Read — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:01:32 +0000

So as long as you don’t screw with DAOS it will play happily ?
Just turned it on here on the Lotus DR server … went from 181GB of Mail and archives to 107.2GB that includes the filestore
that’s a huge saving in disk space utilisation.
Backup is an issue as Arcserve do not support DAOS until V14 which is in beta testing

Comment on I don’t know how regular bloggers do it! by Mike Burford

Mike Burford — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:40:09 +0000

Thanks Chris, I’ll go and check out Feedly now. And I appreciate your offer, trying to work out how to manage the ‘tons of feeds’ thing has been the challenge, I’ll see if Feedly helps. Cheers.

Comment on I don’t know how regular bloggers do it! by Mike Burford

Mike Burford — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:36:20 +0000

Thanks very much for that Keith.

Comment on I don’t know how regular bloggers do it! by Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:41:50 +0000

If you want google reader to take on more of a newspaper look and feel and also be easier to work with then try Feedly, the Firefox extension for it also. Drop me a note if you want some help in managing tons of feeds in reader

Comment on I don’t know how regular bloggers do it! by Keith Brooks

Keith Brooks — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:20:56 +0000

Don’t worry it will come to you and even if you post once in a while, your input is appreciated.

Comment on Migrated from Domino to Exchange for an iPhone by Mike Burford

Mike Burford — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:54:46 +0000

@11 – I agree totally Henning, but where do you draw the line on determining whether the product delivers or not? I would suggest that it isn’t for one user (albeit I suppose you could argue that in an 8 person company this equates to a 12.5% stake) who has to be different in terms of his technology setup/requirements from everyone else in the office.

Comment on Migrated from Domino to Exchange for an iPhone by Henning Heinz

Henning Heinz — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:41:13 +0000

I can only applaud on any customer who is brave enough to migrate if their current product does not deliver. It is the best answer you can give a vendor. If that vendor is IBM so be it. In theory this could also work the other way around.