Lotus Notes or Exchange Server – which way to go?

Nowadays it’s been a tough competition among number of existing email clients. But the main focus has always been on IBM’s Lotus Notes and Microsoft’s Exchange Server. Healthy competition continues for years now between two main leaders of email collaboration solutions - IBM and Microsoft. It’s totally up to user whether he wants to go with Lotus Notes or MS Exchange Server. Actually an organization’s work environment also plays an important role in deciding the choosing factor for email platform.

So a company has to decide meticulously over the email solution its deploying. After all it’s majorly the employees that get influenced directly with email platform. Therefore both companies are putting their best efforts to improve working conveniences for end Internet users. They are taking into account various new ideas of the platforms enhancement and feasibility. Interesting projects have being realized in the both companies.

Companies which are working on Lotus Notes are planning a shift to MS Exchange Server. Interestingly many have already migrated to MS Outlook. And they have successfully converted all their previous Lotus Notes .NSF files to MS Exchange Server mailboxes. This is achieved using Notes to Exchange migration software.

There comes a free add-on for Outlook, which works as Notes Connector, user gets benefitted with it. Microsoft supports free add-on for Microsoft Outlook client, which allows connection to message/collaboration server Lotus Domino. It’s Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino. It enables using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 to access e-mail messages, calendar, address book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus Domino Release 5.x or Release 6.x server.

In the similar manner, there is connector for Domino Server too. It’s Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1. The new IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 provides the solution for businesses looking to migrate away from Microsoft Exchange, but don't want to re-train their users. Now company employees can continue using their existing Outlook client for messaging, calendar and scheduling, and personal information management (PIM) services, with replacing Microsoft Exchange server infrastructure to Lotus Domino servers, running on the hardware and operation system of their choice, including Linux.

Both the above utilities are very much useful and effective too. But if you have decided to deploy MS Outlook in your network, then you would be in need of proficient Notes to Exchange migration software for getting the emails in .nsf file format to Outlook .pst file format. This notes to exchange migration software is capable of converting or migrating all emails, attachments, images, sent items, email properties, journals, notes, calendars, everything to Outlook .PST file format. Even whole of Domino Server mailboxes gets converted to MS Exchange Server mailboxes easily and effectively.