> The current Notes client is very tied into the MS APIs. Porting > it to any other platform would be extremely difficult, and given the > marketshare of Linux on desktops, not justifiable.
It would be interesting to see how well one of the Windows API translation products that claim to take Windows application source and produce a native Linux binary would handle something like this. Given that Lotus tends to play by the rules when the Windows API is concerned (much better than MS does), I would think it would be possible to produce something fairly useful at minimum development cost. The testing cost would be somewhat more substantial, but not out of the question. > I would love to see a "native" Linux client, but I would not hold my > breathe waiting for it! iNotes is kind of clumsy, but I do have to say that the 6.x releases are a LOT less nasty than previous WWW clients. Also, wasn't there a AIX or Solaris client at one point? If so, that would be the place to start, rather than with the Windows client. -- db
