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1 - I'm running Domino 8.5 (public beta 2) on an Asus EEE 4G... entirely on a flash card. Nathan posted a video a couple months back showing it in action:

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Posted by Tim Tripcony At 12:52:16 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

2 - @1 Thanks Tim, I remember watching that now.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 01:02:52 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Domino 8.5 beta 2, on a eee-box (a desktop machine on the line with asus's netbooks, atom cpu and 1gb ram), it works like a charm!

Posted by Giuseppe Grasso At 02:24:37 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

4 - @3 Nice, do you have DAOS enabled?

Posted by Carl Tyler At 03:18:46 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

5 - Performance is one thing but how long will a $300 laptop last? And when it breaks, how do you replace it and get the data back? Running a few test items is one thing, but a production "server" that should run reliably for prolonged periods of time? As an interim solution, maybe ...

Posted by Victor Toal At 04:52:39 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

6 - @5 That's true. But for a lot of companies, they're just running $500 machines in a cupboard somewhere. So this really isn't that different.

For a lot of remote offices, if you can automate the backup, and have a good replication schedule in place, you could keep a spare one of these as a replacement stored in a drawer somewhere.

Remember we're talking really small regional office, not a banking branch wth 20 staff.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 05:04:06 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

7 - I still can't see this as a viable solution. so yo keep a PC in the drawer .. after 1 year, how many SPs do you have to load? How many upgrades of domino do you have to run? the issue is not how much the PC costs, but how complicated it is to restore service. If yo have a sever there, then it is important. 2 or 20 users ... this is a interim solution at the best, I would be hard pressed to leave this behind for some poor sod of a support tech to deal with later. sorry, I always think of what the support issue swill turn unto later, after two different support guys quit and were hired ...

Posted by Victor Toal At 10:47:24 PM On 11/17/2008 | - Website - |

8 - One great thing about putting a server on a laptop, especially a small one is that if it breaks you can just pop a new one in the post and they can send the old one back to be fixed.

Posted by Alan Bell At 06:57:52 AM On 11/18/2008 | - Website - |

9 - I think a small office could do much worse than netbook "server". Backups are easy and need to be done regardless of the server being a netbook or a desktop or a "real" (?) server. It could be as simple as a nightly image backup (or a combination of that with replication). The result would be easy to automate and would solve concerns such as SPs. You could even forgo buying that secondary machine until the day it dies - with a netbook type solution, you'd just go out to the local BestBuy, etc. and pick up a replacement and be back up and running by noon.

Posted by Glen At 09:10:59 AM On 11/18/2008 | - Website - |

10 - I may get one of these as it looks like the price will drop below the $300 mark pretty soon - I just saw it at $320 so it's headed south.

Posted by Glen At 02:43:41 PM On 11/18/2008 | - Website - |

11 - Hi All,
Can Domino server be installed on the below netbook:

HP Mini 2102 with

Processor
CPU: Intel Atom N450
Clock Rate: 1660MHz

RAM
RAM Technology: DDR2 SDRAM
Installed Size: 1024MB
Max. Size: 2048MB

Storage
Hard Drive: 160GB

How reliable is a netbook if a Domino server was installed on it for 5 users?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by Albert At 04:24:55 AM On 06/19/2010 | - Website - |