Comment by senectus1

6 months ago

I used to manage a Domino/Notes environment back in my early days in IT.

Domino server was rock solid I never had to worry about it at all.

Notes client was clunky and not super intuitive (4.* through to version 6.01 I think) but was still quite a decent client. groundbreaking stuff for the time. I have mostly fond memories of it.

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dharmatech  6 months ago

What platform did you run Domino on?

If Domino was solid, I'd imagine Domino on AS/400 was near unstoppable.

  • projektfu  6 months ago

    As a user, we used two Domino servers. One was Windows NT, the other was Linux. The Linux one was incredibly performant compared to the Windows one. I think it was an example of good reimplementation using hindsight.

  • pickle-wizard  6 months ago

    In a past life I was a Domino admin and I ran it on an AS/400. It was great, handled incredible amounts of load, and required little maintenance. The only outage we had was when I accidentally deleted all the databases from the file system. Even that was pretty easy to recover from.

  • senectus1  6 months ago

    I had an AS/400 but unfortunately never got to run it on that. (it was a JD Edwards server for the ERP system)

    Nope it was on good old winNT 4

    I think we may have upgraded it to windows server 2000 at one point as well.

    I remember that the disk partition it ran on ran out of disk space once.. it kept ticking along. just didnt let users make changes. Amazing stuff.