Editing HCL Notes (section)

===21st century===
IBM donated parts of the IBM Notes and Domino code to OpenOffice.org<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/10/ibm-to-contribute-lotus-notes-code-to-openoffice-org|title=IBM to contribute Lotus Notes code to OpenOffice.org|first=Ryan|last=Paul|publisher=ars technical
|date=September 10, 2007 |access-date=June 21, 2009}}</ref> on September 12, 2007 and since 2008 has been regularly donating code to OpenNTF.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openntf.org/blogs/openntf.nsf/d6plinks/NHEF-89BBAD |title=IBM's biggest Code Contribution to OpenNTF - The XPages Extension Library |publisher=openntf.org |access-date=September 15, 2010}}</ref>

Despite repeated predictions of the decline or impending demise of IBM Notes and Domino, such as ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine's 1998 "The decline and fall of Lotus",<ref>{{cite magazine
 |magazine=[[Forbes]]
 |title=The decline and fall of Lotus
 |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0810/6203106a.html
 |date=April 1998}}</ref> the installed base of Lotus Notes has increased from an estimated 42 million seats in September 1998 {{Citation needed|date=May 2007}} to approximately 140 million cumulative licenses sold through 2008.<ref name=iNotes.NYT>
   {{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
 |url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/embargo-lifts-at-1201-am-est-930-ibm-puts-iphone-into-the-lotus-position
 |title=I.B.M. Puts iPhone in the Lotus Position
 |author=Ashlee Vance |author-link=Ashlee Vance |date=September 30, 2008}}</ref> Once [[IBM Workplace]] was discontinued in 2006,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS906-251 |type=Announcement letter |title=Software withdrawal and service discontinuance: IBM Workplace Messaging |date=December 12, 2006}}</ref> speculation about dropping Notes was rendered moot. Moreover, IBM introduced ''iNotes'' for [[iPhone]] two years later.<ref name=iNotes.NYT/>

IBM contributed some of the code it had developed for the integration of the [[OpenOffice.org]] suite into Notes 8 to the project.<ref>[http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzzentry.jspa?selectedCategoryID=5&threadID=2191&tstart=0 "IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105065948/http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzzentry.jspa?selectedCategoryID=5&threadID=2191&tstart=0 
|date=November 5, 2007}}</ref> IBM also packaged its version of OpenOffice.org for free distribution as [[IBM Lotus Symphony]].<ref>[http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzzentry.jspa?selectedCategoryID=5&threadID=2581&tstart=0 "IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012001258/http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzzentry.jspa?selectedCategoryID=5&threadID=2581&tstart=0 |date=October 12, 2007}}</ref>

IBM Notes and Domino 9 Social Edition shipped on March 21, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/archive/ENUS213-085 |publisher=IBM |type=Announcement letter |id=213-085 |title=IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition puts you on a solid path to becoming a social business
|date=March 12, 2013 |access-date=January 19, 2025}}</ref> Changes include significantly updated user interface, near-parity of IBM Notes and IBM iNotes functionality, the IBM Notes Browser Plugin, new XPages controls added to IBM Domino, refreshed IBM Domino Designer user interface, added support for To Dos on Android mobile devices, and further server functions as detailed in the Announcement Letter.

In late 2016, IBM announced that there would not be a Notes 9.0.2 release, but 9.0.1 would be supported until at least 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slideshare.net/Teamstudio/ibm-presents-the-ibm-notes-and-domino-roadmap-68154347|publisher=IBM|title=IBM Presents the IBM Notes and Domino Roadmap|date=November 4, 2016|access-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref>  In the same presentation, IBM also stated that their internal users had been migrated away from Notes and onto the IBM Verse client.

On October 25, 2017, IBM announced a plan to deliver a Domino V10 family update sometime in 2018. The new version will be built in partnership with [[HCLTech]]. IBM's development and support team responsible for these products are moving to HCL, however, the marketing, and sales continue to be IBM-led. Product strategy is shared between IBM and HCL. As part of the announcement, IBM indicated that there is no formal end to product support planned.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/blogs/social-business/2017/10/25/ibm-announces-investment-notes-domino-version-10-beyond/|publisher=IBM|title=IBM Announces Investment in Notes Domino Version 10 and Beyond|date=November 9, 2020}}</ref>

On October 9, 2018, IBM announced IBM Domino 10.0 and IBM Notes 10.0 in Frankfurt, Germany, and made them available to download on October 10, 2018.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.ibm.com/blogs/collaboration-solutions/2018/10/08/ibm-ushers-in-the-next-phase-of-application-development-with-new-ibm-domino-designed-for-todays-agile-digital-business
 |publisher=IBM
 |title=IBM Ushers in the Next Phase of Application Development with New IBM Domino, Designed for Today's Agile Digital Business|date=November 9, 2020
}}</ref>