Lotus Domino Performance is one of those things which we seem to so easily forget about. In 90% of cases it hardly ever seems to be an issue. I was reading a blog post by Lotus Evangelist which was about the Lotus Domino 8.5.2 BETA being installed on some old retired hardware. The hardware seemed to be surprisingly capable of running newer software.
Now we all know, that as software becomes more feature rich, it also puts a higher load on the server and therefore some vendors require a hardware upgrade for their software to run. This is often a cost which can hold an upgrade project back.
Have you ever stopped to think about Lotus Domino Server? Ever since release 6 of Domino, the newer release has promised better performance, and the next, and the next….
Yes, over the years companies have replaced hardware but this has been more down to the hardware getting old and unreliable, user demand going up and the demand of more functional Lotus Notes and Web based application. I wonder what things would be like if you were to restore a 10 year snapshot (not that snapshots were even popular back then) and then upgrade the server to 8.5.
I cannot remember a time when IBM has said that I would need to replace my hardware to enable me to carry out an upgrade. Lotus Notes & Domino Rocks!
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Thanks for the reference, Link is here: http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2010/06/852-performance-as-told-by-p3-server.html
You don’t need to do the screenshot.
I could do this live for you, as long as R8.5 will run on Windows 2000.
I could load up 6.5 then go to 7 then to 8 and 8.5.
Interesting idea, maybe when I have some time in a week or 2.
@Keith,
You should do it. It would be really interesting to see the results.