Talking Lotus Notes Traveller (Updated)
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I'm just listening to the latest edition of the Taking Notes podcast, available here, about Lotus Notes Traveller. As you know, Notes on PDA devices is kinda my 'thing', so....
Some interesting things for the people to look at - Domino Administrator integrated administration, sync over port 80 (I think). It uses the mail file contacts (where they should be....) and can act as a proxy (ie Traveller add-in on one server and mail servers elsewhere).All good and a definite feature 'tick-list' check against Microsoft Exchange.
HOWEVER, one thing to note, oh customers and partners. Lotus Notes traveller is based upon Visto technology. What does this mean? Well, first up it works well and is very simple to use. But, it's extremely limited in use. No remote device wipe, no device software management, no applications support, no Sametime support (though that is available separately), limited content compression, byte differencing etc etc.
Are these things important to an enterprise? Well, we have a large customer with an installed Commontime solution already running. But they were offered Visto for virtually free - so they dual ran for a period of months. In the end, they stayed with Commontime for it's extended feature set and manageability. So, if you've got lots of devices - you're still looking at a separate solution. But, good news in the anti-Microsoft battle!!
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Ahh... more information comes to light (ie, I stand corrected). It seems there is some deceptive marketing going on here - Visto is working with IBM, but Visto technology is not in Traveller. Naughty Visto, trying to deceive the market! My comments about the third party solutions still stand, but this is a new solution written by IBM. So, more good news for Notes users
Of course, should
IBM be needing some beta testers, I'd be more than happy to oblige
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Bookmark :
I'm just listening to the latest edition of the Taking Notes podcast, available here, about Lotus Notes Traveller. As you know, Notes on PDA devices is kinda my 'thing', so....
Some interesting things for the people to look at - Domino Administrator integrated administration, sync over port 80 (I think). It uses the mail file contacts (where they should be....) and can act as a proxy (ie Traveller add-in on one server and mail servers elsewhere).All good and a definite feature 'tick-list' check against Microsoft Exchange.
HOWEVER, one thing to note, oh customers and partners. Lotus Notes traveller is based upon Visto technology. What does this mean? Well, first up it works well and is very simple to use. But, it's extremely limited in use. No remote device wipe, no device software management, no applications support, no Sametime support (though that is available separately), limited content compression, byte differencing etc etc.
Are these things important to an enterprise? Well, we have a large customer with an installed Commontime solution already running. But they were offered Visto for virtually free - so they dual ran for a period of months. In the end, they stayed with Commontime for it's extended feature set and manageability. So, if you've got lots of devices - you're still looking at a separate solution. But, good news in the anti-Microsoft battle!!
<Update>
Ahh... more information comes to light (ie, I stand corrected). It seems there is some deceptive marketing going on here - Visto is working with IBM, but Visto technology is not in Traveller. Naughty Visto, trying to deceive the market! My comments about the third party solutions still stand, but this is a new solution written by IBM. So, more good news for Notes users
Of course, should
IBM be needing some beta testers, I'd be more than happy to oblige
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