In the three years since HCL took over development of Domino, they have been executing on a product strategy that is making the 30 year old platform relevant again. After years of neglect, there was a lot to do, but the latest release of Domino, v12, moves the product further forward than it’s ever been.

An abundance of caution. It’s a phrase that has been used (some might say overused) many times since the beginning of the global pandemic 15 months or so ago. But the concept is a useful one if you’re monkeying around with 25 plus years’ worth of corporate data. Whether you are moving, migrating, or modernizing your Lotus Notes apps, you should exercise an abundance of caution when it comes to the underlying data.

If you’re a human living on Planet Earth in the 21st century, it’s pretty easy to map out your surroundings and navigate to where you want to be. Unless what you’re trying to map out is your Lotus Notes application landscape. Luckily, help is at hand.

If you’re the type of person who likes to take things apart to find out how they work, then this might be the blog post for you. Teamstudio Export takes your old Lotus Notes databases and turns them into XML format archives that can be used to create standalone web sites that can be distributed to users royalty free. If you want to understand more about the format of the XML archives, then read on!

There are different reasons why you might need to archive old Lotus Notes databases, and an almost infinite number of different approaches to the archive process. In this article, we take a look at the different ways this can be done, along with an analysis of the pros and cons of each approach.