Quickr and Domino

Anthony Holmes  22 May 2008 07:27:12 PM

I had heard that recent versions of Quickr were tightly tied to specific versions of Domino. Quickr does a lot of sexy stuff: and that means it's not your typical HTTP enabled Domino application. It really matters that it's accessing the correct Domino engine.

I discovered how true this was by accident today. I booted up an old VM with the intention of upgrading the install of Domino 7 to 8.0.1 to allow me to demonstrate something to a customer.

Inexplicably, the upgraded server started crashing a few minutes after I booted it each and every time.

It took me a few reasons to discover why: When I started Domino, I was starting Quickr 7 on Domino 8. Quickr 7 was unhappy running on Domino 8. Not just a little bit unhappy: "some functions don't work, some pages don't render properly", but seriously unhappy: "I'm going to crash this Domino 8 server - very quickly" unhappy.

Which I guess goes to prove a pretty simple point: run your software with the correct releases, otherwise "something may happen. You never know what!"

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