HCL shows off Domino version 14 beta ahead of 2023 debut
Summary
HCL Domino, the product that started life last millennium as Lotus Notes, will soon reach its 14th version. It’s a major upgrade that rebuilds the code’s core, changes the compilers that can work with the suite (VS 2023 will be an option), and the supported Java version jumps from 1.8 to 17 which will mean apps need to be revisited to ensure compatibility. IBM acquired Lotus, and with it Domino, in 1995 in a $3.5 billion deal that was at the time the most expensive ever acquisition of a software company. But Microsoft’s Exchange came to dominate, in part because it focussed on email and calendaring while Notes/Domino was pitched as an environment in which to build and run messaging-centric apps. That the India company is still bothering to create updates bespeaks the stickiness of custom apps built on the platform, although HCL always says it manages to score the occasional new client.
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