At least when it comes to 8.5.1, is it worth all the trouble? Everyone is clearly excited about performance improvements that the 64-bit version offers. The native support of the 64-bit architecture is a big plus on its own, you must have that in order to be counted a modern piece of software. Many kudos to the Lotus server team for making it happen.
But what about the other products and the other pieces of the server?
Not everything — native IBM and 3rd party — works with 64-bit. For example, SameTime, still a 32-bit product, does not recognize that Domino is even installed, if trying to run on top of the 64-bit version.
The lack of ODBC support is a huge problem. Luckily, it is soon to be solved by the 8.5.2 release. As the Lotus team is fighting to revitalize Lotus Domino as a valid application development platform, shipping a product without the ODBC support was a mistake. There should’ve been a big huge disclaimer at the beginning of the installation routine: if you use ODBC, don’t install this version.
I hope that the 8.5.2 release will address all these issues.
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