Lotus Notes Applications

All,
Does anyone have any experience of migrating a Lotus Notes application to HTML DB ?
Are there any tools available/proposed/in development to allow this ?
Any help would be appreciated even if it is a no
Thanks in advance
Chris

Chris,
While I have not done any Lotus Notes migrations myself, I did help a customer (a large US Federal Government agency) perform a migration.
The lead Lotus Notes developer was tasked with re-building a system in HTML DB. He knew little about Oracle, PL/SQL, Relational Databases, and HTML DB. They are now days away from going live with a very comprehensive HTML DB application.
Some of his comments about HTML DB were that the power of a Relational Database and the ability to exploit that power is something Notes lacks. He was also impressed with the declarative nature of HTML DB, which was similar to Notes - this made the transition much easier for him.
At this time, there are no tools planned for Lotus Notes migrations.
Hope this helps,
- Scott -

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Your issue is out of support range of VS General Question forum which mainly discusses
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10134 Torino ITALY
tel: +39 11 4618515
fax: +39 11 4618212
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David Wilbur wrote:
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To: [email protected]
cc:
Subject: Forte & Lotus Notes
Has anyone developed an interface between Forte and email systems,
specifically Lotus Notes? We want to, among other things, send email
messages to named users from within a Forte application. We are running
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Kind Regards
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