25 years!

On 17 March 2023, it was 25 years since the first working day at Dalsgaard Data - at that time not yet registered as a limited company.

In the beginning the nature of the work was what we called "body shopping" - i.e. mediation through a consulting agency. That has developed to having our own clients with slightly more versatile tasks ranging from development to operations/architecture - as well as tasks in the field between these.

Part of the work is still based on Notes/Domino, which at the time had just been bought by IBM, but is now owned by HCL. I started on version 4.6, and while writing this I am currently installing an HCL Domino 12.0.2 in a container (Docker). Quite an impressive journey for a technology that was ahead of its time in many respects at that time.

In addition to Notes/Domino, development for mobile platforms has also become a permanent part of the toolbox, primarily Xamarin (from Microsoft) but also web-based frameworks for mobile. Finally, the Couchbase database has become a larger part of the toolbox. It has many of the characteristics that a Notes database has - but also some wild features for scaling and integration with mobile.

It has been a fantastic journey - and we will continue it!