If there is a Lotus Notes ODBC client library for Linux, just use DBD::ODBC. If you can't get the ODBC library for Linux but can get it for another platform and still want to run your script on Linux, you should look at DBD::Proxy/DBI::ProxyServer. In a DBD::Proxy setup you would set up a DBI::ProxyServer process running on the box w/ the ODBC client library and it would connect to the Notes database. Then you use DBD::Proxy in your client program (running anywhere) to connect to the DBI::ProxySerer process. I know thats a lot of layers, but it does actually work. I've used this technique to connect a program on a Linux box to an MS-Access DB ... its more stable than you might think.