HCL Domino · Lotus Notes
HCL Domino, IBM Domino, Lotus Notes. Same platform, three owners. We have worked on it since Notes R4 back in 1994, and we still do. Kept alive, understood again, or moved somewhere current: all of it is ordinary work around here.
Nobody rings up wanting Domino consulting. They ring up because one of these is happening.
There is an application quietly doing something important. Claims, approvals, a register, a workflow. The person who built it left years ago and took the understanding with them. We read the design, write down what it actually does, and get you back to a spot where change is possible again.
Nobody can price a migration until someone opens the databases and finds out what is in there. So that is what we do first. What is live, what died years ago, what the data really looks like, and which applications are worth rebuilding rather than dragging across.
Upgrades. Replication that stopped a fortnight ago. Certificates, mail routing, a domain that wants merging or splitting, a move to different hosting. Ordinary Domino admin work, done by someone who has done it at scale rather than learned it off a forum last Tuesday.
Old version, vendor relationship lapsed, and nobody on the internal team has ever seen Domino. We can pick it up, get it stable, then either hand it back documented or keep half an eye on it for you.
Domino work is a small field and getting smaller. Worth knowing how much of it someone has actually done.
Since 1994
Notes R4 onward
Thirty years on this platform, through every rename it has had. Lotus Notes, then IBM Domino, and HCL Domino since 2019. The applications built way back then are often the ones still running today.
2nd largest
Domino network worldwide
Ran a global professional services Domino estate second only to IBM's own with thousands of databases replicating globally. That included merging two domains, one flat and one hierarchical, which is exactly as much fun as it sounds.
150 clients
hosted and supported
A decade running Domino hosting. Around 20,000 authenticating users, 3 million hits and 2 TB of traffic a month, plus the move off physical data centre kit onto cloud.
20+ years
of migrations off it
Domino to .NET. Domino to cloud. Domino to the web. We have been moving work off this platform for as long as we have been building on it, which is why we know how to do it quickly.
Domino ended up in the same sorts of places everywhere. The systems that were too specific to buy off the shelf.
Administration and development both. If yours is on the list we have done it before, and if it is not, ask anyway.
Yes. Same platform, three owners. Lotus built it, IBM bought Lotus in 1995, and HCL bought the product outright in 2019. It sells as HCL Domino and HCL Notes now. Anything written for Lotus Notes or IBM Domino is the same technology underneath, and we work across the lot.
No. Old versions are most of the work. We supported estates running R4 and R5 long after they stopped being current. The version matters when you are planning an upgrade path. It does not decide whether we can help.
With an audit, not a migration plan. Until someone has opened the databases and sorted out what is live, what is abandoned and what the data actually holds, any migration estimate is guesswork. The audit is a small fixed piece of work, and it is worth having even if you then decide to do nothing.
We are in Melbourne and work right across Australia. Domino work is mostly remote by its nature, being server access and application code, so where you are rarely decides anything.
Yes, and sometimes that is the right call. If the application works, the risk is contained and the licensing is manageable, replacing it can cost more than it gives back. We will say so if that is what we find.
Tell us the version, roughly how many databases, and what is worrying you. That is enough for us to say whether we can help and what the first step would cost. No obligation. And if the answer is to leave the thing alone, we will tell you that.
