Chapter 1: Introduction

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Overview

In this redbook, we describe how to plan for, install, and manage the IBM Lotus Domino server on the Linux operating system on IBM zSeries hardware.

Implementing this solution requires the involvement of people who are skilled in various areas-Domino, Linux, zSeries hardware, and optionally the z/VM operating system.

This redbook addresses all of those areas, and different readers may want to refer to different parts of the book. However, we strongly recommend using a team approach to the implementation, since good communication is essential to a successful result.

In this chapter, we cover the following:

• Reasons to run Domino for Linux on zSeries

• Domino's platform independence

• Structure of Domino for Linux on zSeries

• What's new in Domino 6.5

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