HCL was already improving Notes/Domino as they were contracted by IBM to do so, also they were doing active development for other IBM products. In Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East still have a lot of Business's using Domino/Notes. State Farm still has 10's of thousands of Notes Applications. A lot of companies have dumped Notes Email but there are companies that still have Notes applications and have tried and failed to find something else to put them in, etc https://www.redpillnow.com/a-n... https://prominic.net/2018/12/0... https://www.ibm.com/blogs/coll...

This is a good thing as HCL has already been programming for IBM for years and they had taken over development for Notes and Domino recently, IBM had been slow on development with domino/notes for years due to their main focus on Cloud computing, which they tried with Notes/Domino in Bluemix, however that didn't quite work out and a lot of IBM's Notes/Domino customers didn't want to move Notes/Domino to the cloud. HCL has already added Node.js to Domino 10 and they are redoing the client . We've switched off Notes email just this year and that wasn't even due to employee's wanting a change, It was mostly due to one of the higher ups wanting Office 365, though I hear quite a lot of complaints about Office 365 from the actual people who use it with applications everyday . Yes there are companies that still have 10's of thousands of IBM Notes applications, though I know not very many companies these days still use it. I"m sure we'll switch off of it eventually but with hundreds of applications it's not the easiest thing to do when your a small shop.