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Guilty as charged. However .... ~Vera Ekjumiverli 2.Oct.02 09:37 PM a Web browser Notes Client 6.0Linux - RedHat
I'm all in favour of having a Mac client. Have used it, will use it in the future. There's a market for it so it deserves the development resources it gets.
I'm also not anti-Linux. Have used it, will use it in the future.
However, it's the constant drone of the "Come on IBM, get on board with a native Linux client for Notes or the world will leave you behind" arguments that I find very frustrating.
If we took the total number of Linux clients out there (and projected to be), factor in how many of those are in Lotus' target market (corporations, government, etc.), and then factored in how many of those folks would actually use proprietary s/w (the anti-microsoft advocates vs. the open source advocates), and then divide that number by what Lotus could reasonable expect to get in terms of market sharing (50% maybe), I suspect we'd be left with a very small number.
Certainly not large enough to warrant the up-front and on-going costs needed to support the development of such a client.
IBM/Lotus should focus their energies on improving the two native Notes client platforms they already support, plus getting iNotes to work under Mozilla (and others) on Mac and Linux (and Unix and others). Continued development of Domino under Linux and many other OS's should also be a priority.
All the nay-sayers in this forum bemoaning the future of Notes would see their dire predictions come true if Lotus dropped the ball on improving the Notes client in order to divert resources into porting the Notes client to Linux.
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. . . . . . . . Guilty as charged. However .... (~Vera Ekjumiver... 2.Oct.02) 
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