Lotus has an article on its ASP Solution Pack, a bundled pack of Lotus technologies meant for Application Service Providers. According to the article, the new bundled platform is helping Lotus’ Independent Software Vendors to join forces with Lotus ASPs to deliver Lotus collaborative solutions to small and medium businesses, professional communities, and business groups within large IT organizations.

The upgrade process for Eudora 5 (which includes a Palm client) is extremely misleading and we recommend you use considerable care before upgrading or allowing your users to upgrade to Eudora 5. Users who purchased Eudora 4.3 are entitled to a free upgrade, but if they purchased Eudora 4.0, they are NOT entitled to a free upgrade. Now the issue is that Eudora’s upgrade page is not clear here. It is extremely possible that 4.0 users who have previously upgraded to 4.3 will download the upgrade assuming they’re getting a full upgrade, do the install, and find themselves stuck with a version of the product that has advertising and is not fully functional (the ads take up a considerable portion of the screen).

ZDNet has an article on Lotus’ steps to bolster its position in the current ASP market.

DominoPro has an article on Lotus’ revamped technical support system called Lotus Team Solutions that will allow customers who call for help to speak with a real person rather than a computer.

Are you going to Lotusphere Europe? If so, we’d love to publish trip reports and articles about your impressions of the trip. If you’d like to be part of our field reporting team for this event, please contact Steve Niles at steve_niles@dominopower.com. Here’s your opportunity to be famous and visible to all your other Notes and Domino peers.

AS400NETWORK reports that this year at Lotusphere 2000 in Berlin, IBM will make less of a splash with the AS/400. Instead, IBM

SearchDomino has an article on Lotus’ announcement of a the Lotus ASP Solution Pack designed to make it easier for ASPs to offer hosted Lotus applications.

Network World reports that Lotus is expected to introduce its ASP Solution Pack, a list of pricing options and third-party supporters.

Midrange Computing has an article on Aktion Associates release of a new version of its DB2/400-to-Domino replication tool, DataLink/400. According to the article, it corrects errors in that application caused by memory problems in Domino for AS/400.

AedifiComm announced the latest version of it’s WorkplaceControl for Notes. It allows Notes Administrators to centrally manage any Notes desktop setting and includes new desktop security features.