Some people wait too long before upgrading

Disclaimer: Before starting I just want to point out that I know that there might be legitimate business reasons for not upgrading sooner.

While going through the Lotus developerWorks forum today (using the RSS main topic feed) I saw a post asking a question regarding ODBC before upgrading their server to version 7 later in the year. The versions used in the setup amazes me:

  • Domino server on 4.6.7a
  • OS of Domino server is NT4 SP5
  • Workstations running Notes 4.6.7a (on Windows XP though)

Here we all are discussing Domino/Notes 6.5+ features and can’t wait for Notes 7.5 / Hannover and then someone is still running 4.6!! On Windows NT4!! Amazing.

If it aint broken – don’t fix it!!

If nothing else it just proves that Domino just runs, and runs, and runs, and runs…

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Positive, competent, out-spoken, frank and customer focused architect and developer with a strong foundation in web, cloud and product development. I'm a strong advocate for API first and cloud based solutions and development. I have a knack for being able to communicate and present technically complicated matters in conference, customer and training settings. I've previously acted as team member and leader in a product organisation.