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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by gnielson <gn...@charlotte.infi.net> on 2000/04/23 20:24:20 UTC

Re: [OT] Lotus Domino as Web server ?

I am just curious why they are fixated on Domino to start with?
What are their concerns?

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Jean-Denis Girard wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:36:45 -1000
> From: Jean-Denis Girard <jd...@esoft.pf>
> To: mod-perl Mailing List <mo...@apache.org>
> Subject: [OT] Lotus Domino as Web server ?
> 
> Hi dear modperlers,
> 
> We have a client here willing to use Domino to serve
> his Web site.
> 
> The site should not be very busy (we expect about 15000
> hits per day), but is relatively complex, with database
> integration, visitors tracking, customers logins, SSL...
> 
> As anyone on the list already used this strange beast ?
> 
> What could I say to this client to make him change his
> mind, apart from obvious reasons (price, closed and
> proprietary solution, nobody uses it, less than 1% on
> the Internet).
> 
> Thanks for any response.
> 
> Jean-Denis Girard
> Essential Software
> 


Re: [OT] Lotus Domino as Web server ?

Posted by jb...@dslreports.com.
The usual reasons: I bet they use lotus notes internally for
everything, and domino is the only choice for those
companies that have chained themselves^h^h^h^h made a strategic
decision to go notes.
-Justin

On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 02:24:20PM -0400, gnielson wrote:
> I am just curious why they are fixated on Domino to start with?
> What are their concerns?
> 
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Jean-Denis Girard wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:36:45 -1000
> > From: Jean-Denis Girard <jd...@esoft.pf>
> > To: mod-perl Mailing List <mo...@apache.org>
> > Subject: [OT] Lotus Domino as Web server ?
> > 
> > Hi dear modperlers,
> > 
> > We have a client here willing to use Domino to serve
> > his Web site.
> > 
> > The site should not be very busy (we expect about 15000
> > hits per day), but is relatively complex, with database
> > integration, visitors tracking, customers logins, SSL...
> > 
> > As anyone on the list already used this strange beast ?
> > 
> > What could I say to this client to make him change his
> > mind, apart from obvious reasons (price, closed and
> > proprietary solution, nobody uses it, less than 1% on
> > the Internet).
> > 
> > Thanks for any response.
> > 
> > Jean-Denis Girard
> > Essential Software
> > 

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