When you want to get an idea, what does it take to migrate your Notes application to a different platform you need to assess the complexity of your application. The crudest way would be to count all design elements and multiply them with a risk factor (like views=1, forms=2, agents=3, subforms=1 etc.). If you come from outside the Domino realm, this is as good as it gets.
However if you take a second look, then more questions arise:

• How complex are the forms, subforms, views?
• Has encryption / signature been used?
• Are readers and author fields in the design?
• How's the ACL?
• Are there fields in the documents, that are not in the form?
• Do @Formulas alter field values in other fields?
• How sensitive is the information? Does it need to be hidden from the dba?

... and many more
Check the download section. I've posted a sample sheet with all the assessment questions and a possible "weight" system. What the evaluation doesn't do, is to translate into dollars and month (like complexity 8700 = 5 month and 40,000$). It would be cool to get that figures and pretty useless too, since the human factor (the quality of the team still seems the most important to me) easily can half or tenfold your time and budget. The sheet however is suitable to compare applications, so you can decide which one to tackle first, if management (read politics) hasn't done that already.

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