QuickPlace and Fax for Domino now run natively on the AS/400. This is exciting for AS/400 because they feel Lotus Domino has revived interest in and given new hope for the platform

Sharing Technologies launched its new Web site, which is completely designed using Notes/Domino R5.

Data Communications has this article on Uunet’s groupware service, which lets companies outsource groupware management. The article says that Domino is the only managed application Uunet now offers.

Jason Brooks at eWEEK reviews Lotus Development Corporation’s Domino Offline Services 1.0. This assists users in downloading Lotus iNotes Sync Manager. All this is supposed to let you download and synchronize Web applications so you can get offline Internet access.

Lotus announced the next version of their SmartSuite Millennium Edition will integrate with Domino. They say this will give corporate users easier access to data on Domino servers. The integration will be achieved by using a feature called Domino Net Store that will be incorporated into SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.6, due out in September.

Hitachi has announced it has allied with the Japanese unit of Lotus to lease applications over the Internet. Together, they will market Lotus Notes and Domino software and Hitachi software, including conferencing and accounting programs.

According to the latest press reports, there is a possibility the ILOVEYOU virus was released by mistake. So claims the Filipino student charged with creating it. Will Knight at ZDNet has the full story.

Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Psion, Palm Inc. and Starfish Software, founders of the SyncML initiative, announced a new timetable for the development of the SyncML protocol. SyncML initiative now expects a variety of SyncML compliant products to be on the market as soon as early 2001.

AVT Corporation announced its CallXpress unified messaging solution passed the IBM benchmark testing to provide unified messaging in an IBM AS/400 server environment with Lotus Notes and Domino.

Symatrix Technology announced that it will resell Gentner Communications Corporation’s conference calling service. In addition, the two companies will integrate Gentner’s Instant Access Conference Calling (IACC) service into Lotus Sametime.