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> As far as actual feature benefits, you don't gain much other than you
> can run PERL or other scripts native and you have added security of
> your data not being as hackable as it sitting on an NT box.

Our production environment runs ActiveState perl, NT4 SP6a, Domino 5.0.7>
and a host of supporting tools. Perl is not an excuse to go Linux. Go to
Linux if your app benefits from being on a *nix box.

I wouldn't go to Linux for security. I guess it's the exploit of the week
thing on Linux apps in bugtraq that has me spooked. Then again I'm
paranoid and run OpenBSD for a secure platform.

> My company is currently running 4 Domino servers on NT and we've noticed
> that they really should be restarted every night because of memory leaks,
> or whatever, but a Domino server on NT never seems very stable for very
> long. I'm not sure this is Lotus's fault :-)

Where I work, our production WinNT 4 SP6a servers appear to have a MTBF of
30+ days (some of them have gone months). Something is probably wrong with
your installation / configuration. Consider whether the agents are soaking
everything up or if it really is Domino. You should expect Domino to
consume several hundred megs of ram for it's database cache. I recall ours
typically ran at about 3-400 megs.

Anyhow, so now someone should pipe up on how exactly Domino on Linux is a
good idea since I've been so down on it.

Josh

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