Bruce Gilham Jr.
Orphaned · HCL owns it; nobody is hiring for it

Your records are in Notes databases. Getting them out without losing them is the job.

Where the business is

Notes and Domino are still sold by HCL, but the market for people who can write LotusScript or understand a Notes data model has gone. Firms with decades of records in Notes databases find that every modernisation vendor wants to start from a blank database, which means paying to throw the records away.

What I do about it

I spent thirteen years inside one firm's Lotus Notes estate, first building inside it so their investment was not thrown away, then lifting the records into SQL Server when the time came to put a client portal on top. Both are options. Which one is right depends on what the records are worth to the business and how the firm actually uses them.

Other platforms

Dead · support ended October 2021

Your Silverlight application has no browser left to run in, and the people who built it have gone.

Dead · retired with Visual Studio 2015

LightSwitch built your application. Nobody can change it now.

Dying · no new development since 2000

Classic ASP still runs. That is why it never gets fixed.

Dying · VB6 IDE unsupported since 2008

The VB6 runtime survives on Windows. The people who can maintain it are retiring.

Orphaned · the developers are retiring

Delphi is alive. The one person who can read your Delphi 5 program is not on staff.

Dead · support ended January 2015

FoxPro. Yes, still. And the business still depends on it.