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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Mann <lisam@oreilly.com>
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Subject: ORA puts Lotus Domino in a Nutshell

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O'Reilly Puts Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell


Sebastopol, CA--"With over sixty million users and counting, sometimes it
seems that Lotus Domino doesn't get the respect it deserves," says Greg
Neilson, author of the just-released "Lotus Domino Administration in a
Nutshell". "The platform is mature, and corporations are currently
upgrading, or planning to upgrade, to the current version. And Domino
is holding its own as the leading groupware server product--despite
intense competition from Microsoft Exchange."

Lotus Domino's release R5 has been expanded to interact with most
browsers and other non-Notes clients, so you can choose your favorite
language to design Web applications.  With R5 you can also centrally
modify client configurations instead of hopping from one terminal to
the next throughout the company. And the new Domino Administrator
interface enables you to visually monitor the health and status of the
Domino servers in your network from a single screen.

"There has been an enormous amount of new functionality added to Domino
R5, which is great news but it means a lot of new things to learn to
administer Domino R5," says Neilson. "But all this capability adds
complexity, and it's easy to forget which menu you need." That's where
this latest O'Reilly release in the indomitable Nutshell series can
help. "Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell" is a desktop
reference you'll turn to again and again to find quick, practical
solutions to your organization's administrative problems.

"Domino isn't seen as 'sexy' as some of the latest hot technologies,"
says Neilson, "but without it, there would be a lot of companies that
couldn't effectively share information, let alone have email. There is
a great deal happening at both the server end and client end at the
moment. For clients, Lotus is adding support for non-Notes clients
(such as web browsers and Microsoft Outlook) to get more functionality
in their use of the Domino server. At the server end, work is going on
now to accommodate roaming user profiles and also to increase the
integration with Websphere, IBM's Java web server product family."

Lotus expects increased demand for Domino partially due to a new
implementation available for Linux. "There is an appendix in the book
that covers Domino on Linux," says Neilson. "The implementation on
Linux is pretty much the same as the other Unix variants so there is
little difference from a Domino administrators' point of view. But
Linux is going to be a more important platform for Domino in the future
as it is adopted more and more in corporate server farms as a
replacement for Windows NT/2000."

O'Reilly & Associates' "In a Nutshell" format " is perfect for busy
admins who want the facts but not the frills.


For more about the "In a Nutshell" format, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/nutshell_0598.html


For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, 
author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/domino/

Chapter 13, Domino Server Tasks and Console Commands, is available free
online at:  http://www.ora.com/catalog/domino/chapter/ch13.html

For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565927176.jpg


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Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell
By Greg Neilson
1st Edition August 2000 
1-56592-717-6, 384 pages, $24.95 (US$)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com