Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - I have trouble understanding some Admins

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~Autumn Kijipymanakol

Feb 4, 2015, 4:41 PM

453 Posts

I have trouble understanding some Admins

Category: Other
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.3
Role: Administrator,Developer
Tags: Error 500 Unexpected Error Condition
Replies: 6

My application gets installed on a clients server and I have no control over the version of N/D that they are operating on, and many Admins refuse to add additional packages such as the openNTF extLib and the Domino API. So I have to dumb my application down to work on 8.5.3 but I am seriously considering changing that and saying it must be 9x. In most cases that I have found it is simply the Admins don't want to venture into any unknown area, and/or they don't like N/D and really want to switch the company to all M$ or some other pet stuff that they understand. Of course if they can keep the N/D in the really old version then they can say but N/D can't do ...... but my pet can so lets switch. They now have a fairly compelling case for making the switch.

~Fritz Ekfoobergflar

Feb 4, 2015, 8:44 PM

26 Posts

Before you condemn Admins

You have no idea if

This company has decided to stop paying support and maintenance and are therefore stuck on this version because someone well above the Admin doesn't want to spend money
This company may have taken a decision well above the Admin to not upgrade Domino, the admin could be also upset about having to stay at the same version
There may be no Admin, the admin may have been reorged to manage some other platform, or to perform other duties.

It's very easy to condemn situations like this, but often admins and developers within organizations find their voices are no longer heard and they have to muddle through with what they have.