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Domino 8.5B1 reaches a new goal: 1GB

Anthony Holmes  13 August 2008 10:32:41 AM
Domino 8.5 has reached a milestone: the installation size has crossed a new threshold.

As a follow up to my last posting, I was running a couple of Domino 8.5 installations from different sources (USB1, USB2, Local Disk) to see how the time to install varied. Between each install, I uninstalled Domino, wich is when I found that a complete installation of Domino with every feature (including rarely used ones like Billing) leaves you with a footprint that exceeds 1 Gigabyte:

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1,002.00 MB.

(I just love the fact that it is one thousand and two Megabytes: it tipped the scales by a tiny margin.)

The first time I installed Domino sorry, Lotus Notes Server 3.0, it was 13 Megabytes in size. So it has now (almost) grown to be a hundred times larger. Has it got a hundred times better? Let me think of some of the stuff we've acquired down the years (in no particular order):
  • Servers routinely scale to support around 5,000 users, compared to about 30 with Notes 3
  • Transaction Logging giving data integrity
  • Incremental Backup capability
  • Policies
  • Calendaring & Scheduling
  • SMTP
  • MIME Support
  • HTTP
  • POP3/IMAP
  • LDAP
  • Directory Assistance
  • SNMP
  • Lotusscript
  • Java
  • Administration Process, (including the dozens of things that it makes simple, like user moves)
  • Clustering
  • Network Port compression
  • Attachment Compression
  • Design Note Compression.. etc.
  • Execution Control Lists
  • iNotes interface
  • DB2 integration option
  • Domino Off Line Services
  • Domino Domain Monitoring
  • Activity Trends
  • X.509 support
  • Certificate Authority
  • Password Resets
  • Password Quality Management
  • Roaming
  • Stronger Encryption algorithms
  • Mail Archiving
  • Folders

OK, I'll stop there. I've convinced myself that I could pretty easily come up with a list of a hundred new and important features that didn't exist in Notes 3. Whilst the product's Developers may no longer program as leanly as they did in the early 1990s, they've also added more features than we would have imagined.

Are there any important features that I've missed?