External References

Daniel Nashed has a great blog entry:

Notes Domino Platform – What is Notes/Domino and what is special about it?

Daniel is also a great source for technical advisory and insights. He is a source you can really trust.


Julian Robichaux: What is Lotus Notes? [now called HCL Notes]

Here is a short explanation about what is Notes by Julien Robichaux


Voices from the Press

7 Things IT Managers Should Know About Lotus Notes


dachnug50 | Keynote | Back to the roots – Ralf Ludwig (S.I.S. Gruppe):

After leaving Notes Domino the S.I.S Group decided to come back to benefit from all the built-in features of the Notes/Domino platform:

Note: Video is in German

HCL Domino Marketplace


HCL Domino Ideas Portal


Everything you should know about Domino 12 and 14 and 14.5


Open Source database templates and other goodies

OpenNTF is the web page that has all the good proven stuff. Browse the catalog or follow the blog to see the active community in action.


Planet Lotus

The news feed for all Lotus/IBM/HCL product news including Notes and Domino.


THE VIEW – The Technical Journal for Lotus Notes and Domino

Although no longer published, over years this was an valuable source for first hand premium content about programming, configuring, using Lotus/IBM/HCL Notes and Domino.

Notes

Notes/Domino is like a good wine: getting better over time

Version 1.0 of Notes was first available on December, 7th 1989. The most recent version is currently available as version number 14.
There are not many software titles available these days that are still in the market since their first appearance.
You can still open your in 1989 created version 1.0 databases using the most recent version. The terms Lotus Notes, IBM Notes are all talking about the same. Now it is HCL Notes. HCL bought the software from IBM. It’s Notes the client as part of the server named Domino.

Notes is the client software talking to the server Domino

HCL is selling the client server groupware platform in two parts:

  1. Notes is the client software available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
  2. Domino is the server component with the built in web part

Notes/Domino – what can I do with it?

There are quite a few definitions out there. A good source is Wikipedia. Please refer to their article about the software to find out more.

Other resources on the web