What has been said:

487.1. Julian Robichaux (08/03/2006 05:44 AM)

and speaking of skunkworks projects:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-linux_w2000_interview/

[When did you begin developing Domino for Linux? I hear there was initially a grassroots effort involved in getting support for this.

Kenneth Brunsen

Yeah, it was what we call a skunkworks project-a project that does not have approval really, but someone does it because they want to do it. What happened was, I had been working here for a while on the Domino product and I was wondering why we did not have Linux.

When I would talk to people they would say "Oh, Linux we are never going to do that" and I thought, "Well, I don't see why we can't." So in my spare time, I started porting the Domino code to Linux. At one point, I actually had the Domino server up and running in the 5.0 code stream. And about the time I had it running, someone said, "Oh, maybe we ought to look at Linux." And I said, "Oh, here it is." Then we had to do some fine-tuning and get some of the add-ins to work right and hash out all the bugs, but basically in my own spare time, on my own, I did the initial port. As we started getting more and more approval, we started getting more people like Hugo Curbelo and Steve Lyons to help with it. So when they finally said, "We want this," we had something ready.

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