eWeek has an article on how Ed Brill, Lotus Software senior manager for enterprise messaging, has been putting out a lot of fires over parent company IBM’s stated plans for Domino. According to the article, "The latest dust-up comes on the heels of IBM’s stated plans at Lotusphere in January to remove much of Garnet, the Java-based application development environment in Domino."

NotesOSS.org announced the Project Crucible has been launched. Crucible is the project management template the NotesOSS.org community will use to manage projects. Please feel free to participate in the project by submitting posts. Your feedback will help drive the Crucible project itself.

Lotus Advisor has an article on how some people are worried about the future of Domino 6 now that it will be tightly integrated with the WebSphere platform and based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

Cybernet Software, the creators of Intelliprint, announced the release of a new product called IntelliVIEW. Its an interactive business intelligence tool for Notes that allows the Notes user to query, manipulate, and analyze data quickly.

SoftQuest announced that it will showcase its latest versions of InstallPump and RemoteAgent products at the Lotus Advisor DevCon this April.

Network World has an article on Jagre, a Lotus development tools vendor, which has created Jasper, a tool that adds Java Server Pages to Notes databases. This is an add-on to the Domino Designer, the client-side Notes application development environment.

SWING Software announced the release of version 3 of its flagship product, SWING Integrator for Notes & Office. Version 3 delivers Web enabled MS Office integration, Excel reports, and charts, improved field exchange and mail-merge. In addition, the company invites reselling partners to join a new partner program.

e-Promag.com reports Lotus has confirmed that the company won

SoftQuest announced that it will showcase its latest versions of InstallPump and RemoteAgent products at the Lotus Advisor DevCon this April.

Web Host Directory Ltd. has an article on Prominic.NET’s announcement of its unveiling of new Lotus Domino hosting packages. According to the article, Prominic.NET has increased storage and bandwidth quotas, domain quotas, user quotas, transaction limits, and technical support levels for many of their packages.