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Survey: What Do You Run Domino on -- Windows or Linux?
If I do a rough poll in my head of all of my customers - both past and present - they all run their Domino servers on Windows. Every application I've developed has been deployed on Windows. None (that I can think of right now) have ever ended up on Linux or any other OS for that matter.
I'm guessing the same can be said of most companies? Whereas hosted Domino servers, such as this one, primarily run on Linux I'm guessing that servers owned, hosted and maintained by the company whose applications it runs are more often than not Windows-based.
Maybe I'm wrong? Let's see. Here's a quick survey to find out what most Domino servers run on:
What does the company you work for run their Domino servers on?
Why am I asking? More on that tomorrow.
Comments
Henning Heinz (Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:25 AM) e-mail
You or somebody else at IP address [XX.XX.XX.XX] has already voted in this survey on Thu 31 Jul, 2008 at 03:37. The vote was for "Windows".
Well, I did not vote for Windows and the Browsers Back button still showed Linux too?
Jake Howlett (Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:31 AM)
Do you share an IP address with others users Henning?
Martin Jinoch (Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:44 AM)
Same problem here. I've got my own IP, not shared
Jake Howlett (Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:45 AM)
Hmm. Odd. Is the IP address shown yours? Or does it start 81 and end in 66? If so that's mine and sounds like a bug in my code...
Glen Urban (Thu 31 Jul 2008 05:55 AM)
Same here. The IP starts 81 and ends 66 (which is not mine).
Caroline (Thu 31 Jul 2008 06:20 AM)
Same issue here. I assumed someone else in my company had already voted (who? there are only 2 other developers here!) and it was my gateway ip address or something. But I guess not now...
Craig Wiseman (Thu 31 Jul 2008 06:22 AM) website / e-mail
Same issue for me,
"You or somebody else at IP address [XX.XX.XX.XX] has already voted in this survey on Thu 31 Jul, 2008 at xx:xx. The vote was for "secret"."
and I don't share this IP address, except with people who are presently asleep.
More directly, a lot of my customers would love to run on non-Windows platforms but get hung up by third-party apps (spam software, AV, but Blackberry especially).
Jake Howlett (Thu 31 Jul 2008 06:23 AM)
Sussed it out. Fear not. Your votes were counted. No rigging going on here! Honest.
Like an idiot I'd changed the Remote_Addr field on the actual survey form to be Editable and so it had stored my IP with that document. When you open a survey it uses the Remote_Addr field to see if you've voted. Because the field was stored it always looked to see if I'd voted, which I did. For Windows.
Now it's not stored and computed you should see the right message about your IP address and vote/time if you try to vote again, which should prove your vote was logged in the first place.
Sorry.
Jake
Timothy Briley (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:20 AM) e-mail
Windows or Linux? I'm surprised that you don't have OS/400 on the list.
Alex Hernandez (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:21 AM) e-mail
Hi Jake, same issue around IP here.
Regarding the poll, It's true that a lot of customers use Domino over Wintel machines, in my case I have customers that run Domino on AIX boxes. Inthe company I'm working I've installed Domino on Windows, Linux and OS/400, and deployed applications that runs smooth and easy on every system.
.::AleX::.
Thomas Schulte (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:29 AM) website / e-mail
And what about those who have mixed environments, like we have. Both Linux and Windows as Domino Servers.
Bruce Currier (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:40 AM)
Jake,
Currently, all our Domino runs on Windows. We are in the planning process now of moving our Domino and Sametime to Linux this year.
Mike (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:42 AM) e-mail
Most of my work has been for large corporations which have run all of their Domino servers on Windows.
However, I've picked up a few small businesses recently, one of which is a Notes/Domino "virgin". I am probably going to install Lotus Foundations for them. The great thing about small businesses is they tend to not care what lies underneath - they just want it to work.
Jake Howlett (Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:59 AM)
OS/400 comes under "other" ;o)
It's meant as a rough snapshot of the divide between Windows and everything else. If you have an even mix of both then I guess there's no answer to the survey in this case.
Tanny O'Haley (Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:12 AM) website / e-mail
I need an all of the above. All our application servers are Windows. The mail servers are iSeries - OS/400 and mostly pSeries AIX which is not really Linix though we have one of those too.
Jake Howlett (Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:20 AM)
In that case Tanny I guess I should reword the question to "What does the company you work for run their Domino *application* servers on?" and your vote should be for Windows.
Robert Laing (Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:55 AM) e-mail
We're an IBM BP and our customer base is 16 System i shops, 1 Linux shop, 3 Windoze shops, and 3 mixed shops(i for mail/apps, Windoze for BB)
Chris Brewer (Thu 31 Jul 2008 11:20 AM)
Add another for AIX (IBM managed servers)
Thomas Bahn (Thu 31 Jul 2008 01:17 PM) website / e-mail
Another "both" vote.
chuck dean (Thu 31 Jul 2008 02:35 PM) website / e-mail
Primary server AIX 5.3
BES server Windows XP
Tony Palmer (Thu 31 Jul 2008 06:02 PM) website / e-mail
Another both vote too.
Development is done on Linux and Production on Windows.
Paul Gaudion (Thu 31 Jul 2008 10:30 PM)
Hey Jake
I voted before your IP address thing changed, so I wanted to vote for my companys' 100 Linux servers and it said I had already voted for Windows.
Anyway I have voted from work this morning as Linux. Which within 1 month is moving to Windows. go figure.
Paul
Mark Teichmann (Fri 1 Aug 2008 06:40 AM)
Jake, your check for multiple voting uses the IP address. That is in my case the proxy server of our company. Therefore from our 30k employees only one can vote. While this is a good thing when you are asking for company properties it is not a very good method to detect double votes in my eyes.
Maybe you could store our finger prints or some DNA string to identify us more accurate?
Bastian Wieczorek (Fri 1 Aug 2008 09:58 AM) website / e-mail
Another "already voted" here too. But this person voted in the morning for Linux... so its ok :-D.
mark (Mon 4 Aug 2008 04:34 PM) e-mail
I voted for Windows a few minutes ago and got the 'somebod already voted from that address' message - the IP of my ISP possibly?
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