8.02 clients falling like Dominoes

Over the past couple of weeks I've done 2 Domain upgrades to From Domino R7 to R8. Both experiences have been a great reminder about what a great server product Domino is, and go a long way to explain why Domino Administrators love the product - much to the bewilderment of their users who just don't get the attraction. The upgrades just worked – no hassle, no problems, just

Then there's the R8 client. I'm just not that impressed. I did a bit of testing with the R8 client betas, testing both the basic and Godzilla standard versions, and while it was definately updated and improved I just wasn't as "wowed" as I felt I should be. Maybe it's just been too long away from the Kool Aid, or too much time spent using Outlook 2007, it just needed to try harder in my humble opinion.

So after a few Notes-free months I'm back looking at 8.02 on behalf of various clients. It's a lot faster for sure, and the memory consumption seems to be nicely curbed, but I'm noticing a few weird client lockups on Vista machines. It's happening on more than one workstation, and these are all brand new machines, so it feels like a Notes/Vista compatiability issue where 50% of the time when you run Notes it just locks up during startup, whereas the rest of the time it's fine. Vista is all up to date (well, as up to date as Vista can be), and I've experienced this with a fresh build which had no JVM installed as well as after installing the latest version of Sun's JVM. Things seem to be more reliable when adding the –sa switch to run 8.02 in basic mode, but I've not tested that too thoroughly.

So this is a long way of saying that Domino server is very cool, but at the same time asking if there are any known issues with the 8.x client and Windows Vista? Drop me a comment if you know of anything worth taking a look at, thanks!

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