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Lotus Notes and Domino Server 4.6 Unleashed: with CDROM

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Does not cover enough of most of the basic applications. As an example, the section on mail applications - very briefly touched on POP3/SMTP setup, and does not guide the reader through the creation of a mail database from beginning to end. They assume you already know most of the basic things, although the introduction claims that the book would be a good introduction for a manager with a non-Notes background.

The section on LotusScript would be helpful for a beginner.

This book attempts to cover everything in ONE book, but it might have been more effective to do it in two volumes, or perhaps the publisher should include the earlier edition (4.5) on the CDROM(s).

I have the 4.5 version of this book and the book has gotten worse. A significant portion of the book is now provided on CD-ROM, which I don't like. In my opinion, it would be better if the publishers would either produce two volumes or narrow the topic down to a length suitable for a single book.

The coverage of 4.6 features is very spotty. Some features the book covers fairly well, some features poorly, and some not at all.

I hope this book will be completely revamped and refocused for R5.

I'd recommend against the book for most people. It doesn't work as a reference. It doesn't cover topics in enough depth to be a suitable introduction. It also doesn't follow application development progression enough to be a tutorial. So I'm not sure who the audience should be.

You can't be all things to all people, and unfortunately, this book tries anyway.

I read most of this in a very boring week. Notes/Domino is now such a big product that trying to cover the usage, development and administration aspects is too big a job for one book - even one as thick as this. I think this is tacitly acknowlegded as extra chapters are on CD. In particular the admin elements are very basic.

I was impressed by the LotusScript chapters - I had struggled with OO concepts but this book sorted me out with the basics.

There were a few instances were the examples were still 4.5 rather than the 4.6 equivalent. I tried to mail the publisher on the e-mail address supplied (brave I thought) but the mail bounced (not so brave I thought).

I hope the next version is available in three volumes or a boxed set.

As usual, the Unleashed books about Notes/Domino tends to be very boring to read, it doesn't inspire you to continue looking up things in this book. It does not show all new web design stuff that you actually can do with 4.6. Covers alot, so if you have Great patience then this could be something for you , but spending 10 pages describing a single simple function really is to much.

I had the 4.5 version of this book, and am happy I bought the new version, but for mine I wished there was alot more coverage of new 4.6 features for development. But at this stage there ain't alot of choices available for books on 4.6.
Otherwise it is very thorough, and covers alot of ground. Having the CD containing the book content in a Notes database is very handy.

After having read many books, this is probably one of my favourites. For novice to intermediate users the coverage is excellent. For advanced users, it's a good refresher on the basics. Good detail related to Notes and the Net.