Customer Reviews

Lotus Notes and Domino Network Design

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The title of this this book is completely misleading. It is primarily concerned with reviewing how IBM converted its wordwide organization to release 3 of Notes. The CD contains such useful items as a recipe database!?!

Very disappointed to see majority of content simply high-level discussion, lots of old generic material, and inconsistent editing (the author writes like "Yesterday I found...")

This book differs from almost all other Lotus Notes and Domino books in that it gives a lot of "real world" information on a very large Lotus Notes deployment, namely IBM's rollout. So if you are involved with large Notes and Domino deployments, this is the book for you. It does not provide information on all the routine server administrative tasks and commands. I usually go to the Lotus "yellow" manuals for that. In fact, in my three year experience as a Lotus Notes and Domino system administrator, I've found that most of the trade books on Lotus Notes and Domino are just a re-packaging of the information found in the Lotus manuals. If Lotus ever puts more effort into making their manuals more appealing to the reader, I think sales of many of the trade books on standard Lotus Notes system administration and application development would evaporate. Why buy another book on standard system administration and application development if the company which produced the product provides a comprehensive, readable manual?

This is the only Notes/Domino book I've found which gives any information on estimating bandwidth requirements for large Domino networks. Our company has used the bandwidth design guidelines given in this book for several of our customer's networks. That information alone has made the purchase of the book worth the price. I would like to see a book with more information on the impact of replication on networks. Anyone know of another source for information on bandwidth estimates for large Domino networks?

For a widescale view of Lotus Notes/Domino this is an excellent reference. It covers multiple domain routing and configuration. But for smaller and more popular installations, this book does not cover enough of the day to day administrative problems

This book accomplishes what few do, which is the successful blending of theory and practice. The massive enterprise deployment of Notes within IBM's network (described in detail within the book) provides the perfect framework for illustrating demanding performance, compatibility and scalability scenarios for Notes, as well as the solutions required to address these issues. The authors explain important high-level concepts such as x.500 and LDAP for the uninitiated, as well as discussing specific Notes features of present and future releases...bottom line, this book has something for everyone!

Probablly the best Lotus Notes book I have read from the server/admin side of things. It not only focuses on the rollout/hardware side of things. He really gets into the basics of administratin functions, methods, etc. Even if you know nothing about Lotus Notes administration, this book will give you a basic overview of Administrating a Notes network, and you won't even realize you're learning this as well as the Network Design aspect of the book. The best part, IBM has one of the largest Notes networks in the world. Why not learn from a guy who really knows what he is talking about. And as a bonus you get files that used to be private for IBM use only. Great book! Get it.