If you are running an older version of Lotus Notes / HCL Domino, perhaps because you are supporting a very specific application, you may not have considered upgrading to the latest version for fear of breaking something. But HCL has gone to great pains to make the upgrade process easy, safe and cost effective. There are added bonuses, too.

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” More than 280 years later, we take those words to heart when it comes to our health, our cars and our homes. But what about our software applications? How much time do you spend on preventive maintenance when it comes to your HCL Domino applications?

If you’re maintaining a key Domino based application, you’ll know the importance of including comprehensive release notes with each new release of the application. But you might not be aware that Teamstudio CIAO! includes a report that can make creating those release notes a snap.

We’ve just released a new version of Teamstudio Export, V3.2. It includes new support for tabbed tables in the HTML output, the ability to archive local databases as well as more than 25 other improvements.

“Power users” as well as developers have been creating Lotus Notes applications for decades. That means there are a lot of them in existence. If you need to archive your old Lotus Notes databases, there are a few things to think about. In particular, how the archives will be used should determine what format you choose to store them in.