A fifteen-year old platform carries a log of legacy baggage. I work as a sysadmin for a prestigious and well-known publishing firm. Their Lotus Notes infrastructure has been neglected for years, and we are now in the midst of significant upgrades. I spend a lot of time explaining how the IBM/Lotus Notes and Domino platform (ND8) is not simply the old Notes client with a sparkling GUI and new features. And, finally, I'm starting to see daylight with Quick8, Sametime8, the upgraded AIX, Windows, and Linux Domino servers. Supported clients are IMAP, POP3 (still have some who insist on it), Notes R5, ND6, ND7, ND8 for Macintosh and Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

I wrote up an article summarizing why I think Notes 8 is a Linux Killer-App (a few months old, and it already needs to be updated): http://www.asktheadmin.com/2007/07/ibm-lotus-notes-8-is-linux-killer.html

Ubuntu Notes is a game change. A fully extensible Linux collaboration client supported on FOSS. Thank you, IBM.