HCL Domino

HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes and Lotus Notes; see Branding below) and HCL Domino (formerly IBM Domino and Lotus Domino) are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform formerly sold by IBM, now by HCL Technologies. HCL Notes provides business collaboration functions, such as email, calendars, to-do lists, contact management, discussion forums, file sharing, websites, instant messaging, blogs, document libraries, user directories, and custom applications. It can also be used with other HCL Domino applications and databases. IBM Notes 9 Social Edition removed integration with the office software package IBM Lotus Symphony, which had been integrated with the Lotus Notes client in versions 8.x. Lotus Development Corporation originally developed "Lotus Notes" in 1989. IBM bought Lotus in 1995 and it became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM. On December 6, 2018, IBM announced that it was selling a number of software products to HCL Technologies for $1.8bn, including Notes and Domino. This acquisition was completed in July 2019. HCL Domino is a client-server cross-platform application runtime environment. Domino provides email, calendars, instant messaging (with additional HCL software voice- and video-conferencing and web-collaboration), discussions/forums, blogs, and an inbuilt personnel/user directory. In addition to these standard applications, an organization may use the Domino Designer development environment and other tools to develop additional integrated applications such as request approval / workflow and document management. The Domino product consists of several components: HCL Notes client application (since version 8, this is based on Eclipse) HCL Notes client, either: a rich client a web client, HCL iNotes a mobile email client, HCL Notes Traveler HCL Verse client, either: a web email client, Verse on Premises (VOP) a mobile email client, Verse Mobile (for iOS and Android) HCL Domino server HCL Domino Administration Client HCL Domino Designer (Eclipse-based integrated development environment) for creating client-server applications that run within the Notes framework Domino competes with products from other companies such as Microsoft, Google, Zimbra and others.