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Are you running Domino 7? Lotus thinks so


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I was reading this article on Notes.Net/IBM about the amount of people that have downloaded the Domino 7 client and server.

More than 50,000 users outside of IBM have downloaded the Notes 7 beta client; another 50,000 users within IBM are getting their mail from Domino 7 beta servers, and thousands of those users are voluntarily using the Notes beta client.

Scharfman says these numbers far surpass previous external beta downloads

Now the business partner forum went one step further to discuss the benefits of upgrading to Domino 7.  I know internally we have it deployed on servers and clients so we can test and see the benefits and functionality it has to offer.  Before we start upgrading managed and hosted customers.

I am seeing performance enhancements in the server and functionality gains in the client.  Overall, I think any reduction of CPU and memory while providing more functionality is a good thing.  Awareness is starting to show up everywhere you are in the client.  Saving chats to your mailfile is a neat twist.  Text files don't get huge so I am not too worried about using more space, or quota issues.  The AutoSave kind of sneaks up on you and I haven't fully figured out how to get a document back.  I know AutoSave was built into the server document earlier, but now it is there for all the work you do.

I have played with Domino Domain Monitoring (DMM) quite a bit and have some comments separate on that.