Lotus Notes On Linux?
From Groklaw:
At the end of the presentation, Andreas Pleschek revealed that the laptop he used for the presentation was running a pre-release of their new platform, the Open Client. It is actually a Red Hat work station with IBM's new Workplace Client, which is built in Java on top of Eclipse. Because of Eclipse, it runs on both Linux and Windows, and they have been able to reuse the C++ code in Lotus Notes for Windows to run it natively on Linux via Eclipse. Internally in IBM, for years, they have had a need to run Lotus Notes on Linux, and now they can. And they will offer it to their customers. Workplace uses Lotus Notes for mail, calendar, etc. and Firefox as their browser. For an office suite, they use OpenOffice.org.
Does anyone know more details about how the C++ code in Lotus Notes for Windows is magically turned into native Linux code via Eclipse? I don't entirely understand what they've done here. Maybe the backend is the original C++ with a new frontend built using SWT?
NP: Liquid Swords, GZA
Posted by Dalibor Topic at Wed Mar 8 13:02:24 2006:
Posted by Mike at Wed Mar 8 15:07:28 2006:
It's worth noting that for years IBM has been using Wine to run Notes internally, but they refused to talk about it publically (didn't refuse to file bug reports when it broke though ...) :/
Posted by Alexander at Wed Mar 8 15:31:25 2006:
The product itself is IBM Workplace, with Notes 7 being a natively built plugin for IBM Workplace Rich Client which, in turn, is based on Eclipse RCP. This plugin uses SWT to draw itself within the GUI of Rich Client.
So the code is compiled natively and work is going to move interface part to SWT with widgets largerly resembling Notes client look and feel. As Notes client consisting mostly of Java code for years, anyway.
Posted by Toby Haynes at Thu Mar 9 19:34:44 2006:
So the code is compiled natively and work is going to move interface part to SWT with widgets largerly resembling Notes client look and feel. As Notes client consisting mostly of Java code for years, anyway.
I actually have IBM Workplace running on my machines complete with the Notes 7 plugin. The plugin is still in beta - I have no idea of the official availability dates. And yes - I've also been running Notes using WINE for years too. That allowed me to reclaim that Windows partition and use it for Linux on my machines...
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
