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By replacing IBM Lotus Notes with Novell® GroupWise® , Lentis improved the functionality and availability of e-mail and shared calendaring, while reducing the total cost of ownership.

Lentis is a major mental health organisation in the Netherlands that operates through six brand groupings: Welnis, Linis, Jonx, Axenza, Dignis and Forint. The organisation provides mental healthcare, community services and support for approximately 32,000 clients in the Northern part of the Netherlands each year.

Challenge:

Lentis had implemented IBM Lotus Notes software as its e-mail and calendaring platform, serving approximately 3,000 employees. The organisation has 45 locations linked by low bandwidth connections - between 128 kb/s and 2 Mb/s - and this meant that around 90 percent of employees were effectively unable to use the full Lotus Notes client software for performance reasons. Instead, they were using the Lotus iNotes Web access solution.

Novell Solution:

Lentis implemented Novell GroupWise on a three-node cluster of HP servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The organisation was subsequently able to eliminate the costly IBM AS/400 server on which its Notes solution had been running.

"Running Novell GroupWise on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has given us exceptionally high availability and security for e-mail," said Henk Korterink, IT Administrator, Lentis. "Choosing Linux also enabled us to remove proprietary hardware, which will mean a significant reduction in infrastructure costs."

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