Comments on: Beam me up Lotus Foundations http://www.Bilal.ca/beam-me-up-lotus-foundations/ scribblings about earning influence in the era of social web Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roland Reddekop http://www.Bilal.ca/beam-me-up-lotus-foundations/comment-page-1/#comment-18382 Roland Reddekop Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:03:37 +0000 http://www.Bilal.ca/?p=1130#comment-18382 The real test will be to see if my wife, who can't stand Star Trek (or just about any movie with a science fiction theme), appreciates the rebooted version. But there is a precedent that she does appreciate rebooted realities: For when I converted our home network from Windows to Lotus Foundation a couple months ago, I had fear and trepidation that she would balk and cajole me into returning to the former dark reality. Rather, she has come to appreciate that our precious myriads and myriads of pixel matrix bit units (some call them pictures) and as well as the motion pixel matrix files are safe and sound, backed up by Foundation's highly intelligent backup system, and stored at multiple localities. Restoring a single file, a directory, or an entire disk to a previous point in time has proven so simple that a Lotus Developer can do it! That experience went so well, I branched out and converted the infrastructure of our church from a 6-user Windows 2003 server Active Directory network to Foundations in half a day, and that was taking my sweet time. After dropping in an extra SATA disk, I upgraded the tired old server to a dual disk RAID with a mouseclick. All this is amazing because like Dr Bones, I used to say, "I am a Notes Developer, not an administrator @%^@#$. Next I'll be adding a Quickr server to that same box as a virtual server using Lotus Foundation's Run Add-on. My routine for system maintenance is now pretty much just showing up at the church once a week (Sundays work well being a church and all) and just swapping an external USB drive and taking it home. Read my Windows to Foundations conversion experience here: http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/sanitycheck/entry/bye_bye_complex_microsoft_server_hello_lotus_foundations30 The real test will be to see if my wife, who can’t stand Star Trek (or just about any movie with a science fiction theme), appreciates the rebooted version. But there is a precedent that she does appreciate rebooted realities: For when I converted our home network from Windows to Lotus Foundation a couple months ago, I had fear and trepidation that she would balk and cajole me into returning to the former dark reality. Rather, she has come to appreciate that our precious myriads and myriads of pixel matrix bit units (some call them pictures) and as well as the motion pixel matrix files are safe and sound, backed up by Foundation’s highly intelligent backup system, and stored at multiple localities. Restoring a single file, a directory, or an entire disk to a previous point in time has proven so simple that a Lotus Developer can do it!

That experience went so well, I branched out and converted the infrastructure of our church from a 6-user Windows 2003 server Active Directory network to Foundations in half a day, and that was taking my sweet time. After dropping in an extra SATA disk, I upgraded the tired old server to a dual disk RAID with a mouseclick. All this is amazing because like Dr Bones, I used to say, “I am a Notes Developer, not an administrator @%^@#$.

Next I’ll be adding a Quickr server to that same box as a virtual server using Lotus Foundation’s Run Add-on. My routine for system maintenance is now pretty much just showing up at the church once a week (Sundays work well being a church and all) and just swapping an external USB drive and taking it home.

Read my Windows to Foundations conversion experience here:
http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/sanitycheck/entry/bye_bye_complex_microsoft_server_hello_lotus_foundations30

]]> By: Alex http://www.Bilal.ca/beam-me-up-lotus-foundations/comment-page-1/#comment-18381 Alex Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:32:50 +0000 http://www.Bilal.ca/?p=1130#comment-18381 I love your Star Trek analogy and it worked on me as I am a die hard Star Trek fan! It is true, it is very different interface than other products out there, it's comprehensive and centralized. For others who haven't used this yet, just try it out! If I am not mistaken, the client version works with non-Lotus server. I love your Star Trek analogy and it worked on me as I am a die hard Star Trek fan! It is true, it is very different interface than other products out there, it’s comprehensive and centralized. For others who haven’t used this yet, just try it out! If I am not mistaken, the client version works with non-Lotus server.

]]> By: lrandre http://www.Bilal.ca/beam-me-up-lotus-foundations/comment-page-1/#comment-18380 lrandre Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:32 +0000 http://www.Bilal.ca/?p=1130#comment-18380 That was a great article Chi and really liked the Star Trek analogy! I have to admit I was very much impressed on how easy and fast (to install) Lotus Foundations is. We are only talking about 20-30 mins for the application to be launched! For those who are thinking of implementing this solution, you should definetly check out the demos on the www.lotusfoundations.com website, it's worth it. Cheers That was a great article Chi and really liked the Star Trek analogy! I have to admit I was very much impressed on how easy and fast (to install) Lotus Foundations is. We are only talking about 20-30 mins for the application to be launched! For those who are thinking of implementing this solution, you should definetly check out the demos on the http://www.lotusfoundations.com website, it’s worth it.

Cheers

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