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This transmission is coming to you...

...from the future.

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And the future is SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell, running Notes 8!

Now that's all fine and good, and I've been running it for about a week.  But click more to find out the real twist.
I looked at the Tools menu and spotted Debug Lotuscript.

Really!?  Okay...
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Well, that's cool!  Let's try View Options - Design.  Yep...
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Hmmm... add to Toolbar, Create Agent!  Click...
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In answer to your question, no, Create Form doesn't work.  And yes, I then started trying everything else.

The cool part about this is that SLED10 is $50/year.  Notes 8 will run somewhere in the vicinity of $40/year, and includes the Productivity Editors.  And yes, they work perfectly on Linux.  So that's < $100/year for a complete operating system, productivity and collaboration suite.

Think that adds up to some serious competition against MS?  I sure do.  If nothing else, that turns some cash cows into hamburger.

Yeah, it's early technology.  Perhaps I'm even cutting myself a little on the razor's edge, but there's some serious potential here.  Get out there and try it yourself!

Comments

1 - Hmm... I think it's time to fire up my OpenSUSE VM...

2 - With a bit of fussing around you can get the client up and running on quite a few Linux distro's. So far I've had Gentoo and Ubuntu... which would bring that yearly cost down even more. Emoticon

3 - I would like to give it a try!

4 - So I read this:

"This transmission is coming to you..."

...and I'm scrolling down, expecting...

"BEEP!"

How disappointing! Emoticon


5 - Heh. That was the intended reference.

I'll have to see if I can get Ken to give me some of the original clips from High Roller. They'd make some good presentation resources for next year's 'sphere.

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