I've used Notes for over 20 years and in fact, I still interact with it in one way or another at work and/or at home more or less every day. I'm no longer a "domino developer" and while I definitely built a lot of systems in Notes and Domino, I never really called myself one. Notes was once the world's first truly collaborative platform but after years of mismanagement by IBM, its star had faded.
Then HCL came in and revitalized it.
Updated 2025
We abandoned Notes at work in early 2017 following management pressure to migrate to more "popular" systems such as SharePoint, PowerApps and Azure. Almost a decade on and we now have a very extensive SharePoint site which most people only use as a folder but we in the IT Team use far more extensively. We also have a couple of PowerApps but nothing actively developed. The PowerApps star has definitely waned and it has proven incapable of replacing domino.
Then there's Azure. We were able to replace a system that ran on a shared 25K license with one that cost 500K+ to build and 35K+ per annum license. We've well and truly proven that Domino can't be beaten. In the meantime, Domino has progressed to the point where it offers REST APIs and there is no sensible reason to migrate. Not when the data can be surfaced and manipulated on any platform.
Domino is now back to being our core platform. At some point in the future, I'll talk about some of our key applications and capabilities.