Comments on: Domino Express and Sametime on iSeries

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:55:29 +0000

Express licences only prohibit use of the same release of Domino by more than one server. It doesn’t stop you having multi-versioning of Domino within one instance of the operating system as long as you only have one server per Domino code instance.

By: dilan hotrey

dilan hotrey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:20:25 +0000

Thanks, Tony! Having read your article, I looked through Lotus Domino Express license model and everything became much clearer to me. God job!

By: Michael Delk

Michael Delk — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:23:46 +0000

Were you thinking of us when you wrote this, Tony? We have Sametime in a partitioned Domino server on an iSeries and want to move to Domino 8.5 so we can use DAOS. Luckily our Sametime 8 is on a separate Domino partition so we can just leave that partition at Domino 8.0.2 until an upgrade for Sametime is available.

By the way, I have the CD for SI30432 (JDK 6 32-bit) right here next to me. Can I install it while Domino is still at 8.0.2?

Thanks again for all your help,

Michael

By: Tony Frazier

Tony Frazier — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:39:19 +0000

Thanks Rob!

Yes, the iSeries does offer the ability to create different LPARs, or logical partitions at the OS level (stretching my iSeries knowledge now). This particular set of customers will not take that approach either (too expensive, hardware resource availability, staff skill set, etc.).

Lots of reasons as to why they have their current implementation. Originally when introducing them to Domino, I attempted to get them to separate Sametime out to a different server/platform, but the low workload, low cost of Express license, higher cost of other servers, and compatibility of Sametime/Domino pretty much sealed the deal for them to keep it all on the iSeries.

Has not been a problem yet, and probably, hopefully, will not be a problem when Sametime 8.5 is released. Just trying to find a way around it today as some of them want to upgrade to Domino 8.5 for DAOS and ID Vault.

Would be nice if the no partition exclusion to the Express license could be waived if the “other” partitioned server was only used for the Sametime Limited Use.

Thanks again!

By: Rob Wills

Rob Wills — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:23:45 +0000

Hi Tony, good looking blog. Yes I agree it seems weird that you are licenced to install a separate Domino server for Sametime use but not as a separate partition on an existing install. Does iSeries have any kind of virtualisation at the OS level that lets you install a separate Domino version (kind of like vmWare)?