Actually we are using notes 6.5. We are planning to upgrade it to 8.x. But we are maintaining a lot of databases approximately 50. If we upgrade the server. Does it cause anything major?
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Actually we are using notes 6.5. We are planning to upgrade it to 8.x. But we are maintaining a lot of databases approximately 50. If we upgrade the server. Does it cause anything major?
Simon is correct that it should be backward compatible. Notes and Domino have an outstanding record of compatibility. You should not have any major problems. There’s an occasional minor slip on IBM’s part, but it is almost always treated as a bug and fixed in the next point release. One exception is the @IfError function, which IBM has declared to be obsolete.
However you are talking about a big jump in versions, spanning a difference of over 8 years of product releases. I think that’s too long a period to rely on people’s memories about what minor problems have come up in all those years, but there is a company called TeamStudio that does a very good job of tracking such issues and has a product (TS Upgrade Filters) that will scan your applications to identify them. In any case, I strongly advise you to create a test server and test your applications thoroughly.