Leadership By Numbers :: Nomad's Time has Come with Notes 8.5

Category Administration IBM/Lotus Domino ND8 Security

Notes 8.5 continues to support Notes-on-a-stick, also known as Nomad and Wanda:

You can install the IBM Lotus Notes basic configuration client on a USB drive. Users can then log in and run Notes basic configuration from the USB drive, not a drive on their client desktop.

When IBM/Lotus first featured the USB drive installation for Notes, flash drives were slow, expensive, and limited in capacity. A few years has done wonders for flash technology and it may be time to reconsider the feasibility of supporting Notes on USB drives. Fortunately, the drives no longer have to be created one-at-a-time, as there are a couple of USB duplicators on the market. Make a basic 8.5 installation on a flash drive as a master copy, and duplicate out as many instances as you need.

And, what about security with all these little flash drives ? Notes has always supported encrypting local databases (including the users local contact directory), and network encryption. You just need good passwords.

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Comments

2 - Well, you can always install Ubuntu-on-a-stick and put Notes on that instance. I've done it. It works. It's slow. Seriously, though, my comments were not made to be a tease. The USB installation is meant to be as lightweight as possible, the "standard" install creates a much larger footprint. Why would I want it for a fast, plug-in portable client ? I'm happy that IBM/Lotus has continued to support the USB option for 8.5, and now I think the hardware has matured enough to support the choice of a flash-drive mail client in an enterprise.

Posted by Jack Dausman At 12:01:19 AM On 12/04/2008 | - Website - |

1 - Well, that's a teaser post... At this point, Nomad hasn't changed since it was released, "get the current non-eclipse Notes Win32 client on a USB stick"

Now Notes 8.5 STANDARD on USB Stick would be news. And I'm thinking it would indeed require a high-speed flash drive....

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 11:24:35 PM On 12/03/2008 | - Website - |