InformationWeek says IBM is now offering Workplace Designer 2.5 and plans to ship Notes/Domino 7 in the next few weeks.

Here’s an article from Windows IT Pro about Intradyn’s ComplianceVault Email Archiving & Retrieval Appliance. ComplianceVault is an integrated hardware and software appliance that captures a company’s email and stores it on both a hard disk and Sony AIT write once, read many (WORM) tape, thereby meeting regulatory requirements. It works with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes.

MessageOne has launched AlertFind Enterprise. It offers automatic synchronization with enterprise resource planning and human resource systems and enterprise messaging systems such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.

Six months ago, IBM launched the Initiative for Innovation program, which offers up to $50,000 in enablement support services to help ISVs modernize and strengthen application offerings. IT Jungle has a small sample of ISV opinion to see how the program is going so far.

With Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail server’s extended life-cycle support coming to an end on Dec. 31, 2005, it’s time for even the most loyal Exchange 5.5 customer to start looking for a replacement. eWeek says there’s a new wave of enterprise-class mail servers in 2005 so companies will have a wide variety of choices.

The National Science Foundation said it would spend $148 million by 2010 to expand a high-speed national TeraGrid network of supercomputers for research into areas including genomics, nanotechnology, earthquake and tornado prediction, and aircraft design.

C-Search Limited announced the addition of the C-Search Mail Monitor to its product portfolio as part of the latest release to its search engine. The mail monitor uses the Domino directory to locate each user’s mail file for indexing.

PC World reports that IBM has released new data gathering software technologies for its’ worldwide genetic research project with the National Geographic Society. Replacing the traditional pen and paper approach, the technologies were created to help collect, study and analyze input from scientists around the world who are using genetics to map out human evolution, as part of the five-year Genographic Project

If you sent email into us on Thursday, there’s a chance it got lost. We had a small glitch as we adjusted to our new digs. So, if you sent us something important, please send it again!

RedmondMag.com says that single sign-on (SSO) may finally become a reality for IT managers. The arrival of Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (R2), due out by the end of the year, will bring with it capabilities to let Active Directory integrate with other identity management systems through Web Services.