Lotus Domino running under Linux

A reader has been zooming emails with me for awhile about Lotus Notes & Linux. He has created an alias that you can email him with (not his real address). He's looking for feedback about Linux and Notes. Hit the link to read his request.

Lotus_Notes writes "I am currently in discussions with my technical peers at Lotus Development, and the question has been raised about Linux, and Lotus Domino running on the Linux platform. From what I understand one of the business units went so far to say that they are actually considering a port to Linux, they are still quite a few steps short of actually developing it.

Basically, I need to get a listing of how many people are interested in this idea, and some feedback on these issues. If you are interested, and you can answer these questions truthfully, then please respond with the answers to these questions to [e-mail].

Thank you.

• Would you be interested in running Lotus Notes on Linux?
• Are you a current user of Lotus Notes, on any other platform?
• How many seats do you currently host on Lotus Notes?
• How would you like to see Lotus Notes released? As a full binary, binary + source, or source? Be aware that the odds of anything other than a full binary release is unlikely. Also I believe that it is extremely unlikely that Lotus Notes will ever be GPL.
• When calling Lotus Technical Support Services (TSS), what exactly would you expect when calling for Support on a Linux-based version of Lotus Notes?
• Would you consider Lotus Notes running on Linux as a Mission Critical platform (as Windows NT, or Solaris)?
• Approximately how many users does your site/location/enterprise represent?
• What business is your company involved in?
• Would you be interested in being contacted for followup questions on running Lotus Notes on Linux? What is your Email-address.
• Is clustering, or Notes partitions a valuable/required feature for running Lotus Notes on Linux? "