| IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange?The | | | | 6.5.1The new IBM Lotus Domino Access for |
| severe competition continues for many years | | | | Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 provides the solution |
| between two main leaders in collaboration | | | | for businesses looking to migrate away from |
| solutions - IBM and Microsoft. Whether the | | | | Microsoft Exchange, but don't want to retrain |
| choice of a platform influences the ordinary | | | | their users. Now company employees can |
| user? The both of software giants put efforts | | | | continue using their existing Outlook client |
| to improve working conveniences for end | | | | for messaging, calendar and scheduling, and |
| Internet users. Taking into account that the | | | | personal information management (PIM) |
| products value is approximately the same | | | | services, with replacing Microsoft Exchange |
| worldwide, new ideas of the platforms | | | | server infrastructure to Lotus Domino |
| integration have appeared. Interesting | | | | servers, running on the hardware and |
| projects have being realized in the both | | | | operation system of their choice, including |
| companies.Free add-on for Outlook: Notes | | | | Linux.Platforms supportFor Lotus Domino 6.5: |
| ConnectorMicrosoft supports free add-on for | | | | Microsoft Windows family (95 SE, 98, NT SP6a, |
| Microsoft Outlook client, which allows | | | | 2000 SP3, XP, 2003); Sun Solaris; Linux, |
| connection to message/collaboration server | | | | United Linux.For Lotus Notes 6.5: Microsoft |
| Lotus Domino. Office Outlook Connector for | | | | Windows family; Macintosh OS X (10.1 and |
| IBM Lotus Domino enables using Microsoft | | | | 10.2).For Lotus Domino Web Access 6.5: |
| Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 | | | | Microsoft Windows family; Red Hat Linux, v. |
| to access e-mail messages, calendar, address | | | | 7.2 or 8.0, SuSE Linux, v. 8.0, United Linux, |
| book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus | | | | v. 1.0. It supports the following browsers: |
| Domino Release 5.x or Release 6.x | | | | Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 5.5 and 6.0; |
| server.Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook | | | | Mozilla, v. 1.3.1 Linux-client. |