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

Your records are in Notes databases. Someone has to read the Notes data model to get them out.

Where you are

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.

How the move goes

I spent thirteen years inside one firm's Lotus Notes estate, first building inside it in LotusScript 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 and how the firm actually uses them.

Other platforms

Dead · support ended October 2021

Your Silverlight app has no browser to run in. The code still says what it does.

Dead · retired with Visual Studio 2015

LightSwitch generated your app. You cannot regenerate it, but you can read it.

Dying · no new development since 2000

Classic ASP still runs. No debugger, no tests, and it is your problem now.

Dying · VB6 IDE unsupported since 2008

The VB6 runtime still ships with Windows. The IDE and the developers are gone.

Orphaned · the developers are retiring

Delphi is alive. Your Delphi 5 codebase, on components that no longer compile, is not.

Dead · support ended January 2015

FoxPro. Yes, still. Someone has to open it.