PC Computing takes a look at how Domino R5 and Domino.Doc can make document sharing easy.

Veritas Software Corporation announced that it has enhanced its VERITAS NetBackup support for Lotus Notes and Domino Release 5 (R5). Version 3.2 of VERITAS NetBackup for Lotus Notes now offers online backup and recovery for Lotus Notes and Domino R5 running on Solaris and Windows NT platforms.

Sierra Wireless announced that MobilityLink has joined the WirelessReady Alliance. MobilityLink is an application service provider and Lotus business partner, focused on delivering wireless solutions to enterprise customers who use the Lotus Domino platform. MobilityLink will offer a "Quick-Start" solution bundle, which will wirelessly enable the Lotus Sametime product using Sierra Wireless AirCard 300.

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ThinAirApps LLC announced that the company is offering a public beta test of its ThinAir Server for Lotus Domino. The product will be commercially available in April 2000. ThinAir Server for Lotus Domino is client/server software that allows corporate users to access information from Lotus Domino, using a number of wireless devices. Wireless devices supported for the public beta include the Palm VII, the Palm III, Palm V and WAP-enabled cell phones. Support for Research in Motion Blackberry, and Windows CE devices will be available in the second quarter, 2000.

Globalware Computing began shipping version 2.6 of PylonPro, which allows you to migrate Lotus Notes databases to Palm devices. Version 2.6 features enhancements to date book synchronization. It also offers multiple PC support, so you can synchronize both a home PC and an office PC with the Palm device.

PC Week has this article on voice recognition in handheld devices. IBM previewed a Personal Speech Assistant prototype, a conversational user interface for the Palm III personal digital assistant that includes IBM’s Speech Coprocessor. IBM also demonstrated ViaVoice for Lotus Notes, which uses voice commands to compose, send, reply to and forward email.

Computer Reseller News has this article about how different companies are dealing with knowledge overflow. THe article says that Lotus’ Raven will integrate email, a calendar, realtime chat and workgroup collaboration.

iEnterprises announced a new release of Enterprise Extensions for Lotus Notes. The release includes Opportunity Management/Sales Forecasting abilities that allow organizations to track, analyze and predict sales. Enterprise Extensions for Lotus Notes is a way to handle customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) without leaving Notes mail.

SilverStream Software announced the availability of the latest version of its application server, SilverStream Application Server 3.0. Version 3.0 is based on Java 2 platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards. For Application development and testing, SilverStream Software offers the SilverStream Application Server 3.0, Developer Edition. For deployment, SilverStream offers the SilverStream Application Server 3.0, Enterprise Edition. SilverStream Enterprise Data Connectors (EDCs) are also available for connecting to SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, and Lotus Notes data.