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.

The original versions of the fairytales written by the Brothers Grimm were far, far scarier and more bloodthirsty than later versions. They were modified over time to become more child friendly. These days, once a book is written, it rarely gets updated to v2.0 with a new, improved plot. Software, on the other hand, does get regularly updated, and it’s a good idea to have some tools to help manage that process.

The Lotus Notes client - love it or hate it, you have to have it, if you want to run traditional Lotus Notes/Domino applications. But soon, with the release of HCL Domino v12 will come Nomad Web, and with it the ability to finally retire your Lotus Notes clients. It’s like magic!