Re: "Lotus Notes - and that's vastly inferior and dying rapidly"
"Vastly inferior ? Nope. In terms of stability, it is vastly superior. "
Have to disagree there. Current Exchange versions have vastly superior stability and far more functionality - and far more flexible and powerful clustering / failover options - also Exchange scales much better than Notes with a much lower Disk IO load - and can be deployed at enterprise level on JBOD so has a very low TCO. Exchange generally just keeps on running unless you do something stupid like let the logs fill up due to not backing it up.
" Neither is it subject to all the nastiness that Exchange can get hit with, especially if you put it on a Linux platform."
Exchange has a much lower historical vulnerability count (order of magnitude less) than Notes - and Enterprise Linux distributions are also generally far more vulnerable to remote attack than Windows Server - with much higher vulnerability counts - and with a longer average time at risk. Just look at say cross platform website exploit statistics for evidence of the result of this...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
