AVT Corporation announced the general availability of its CallXpress Unified Messaging solution for the Lotus Domino Release 5 (R5) server and Lotus Notes R5 client. The combination allows users to access all message types from Notes at the desktop PC, the telephone, or a Web browser.

Sun Microsystems and Inprise will announce plans to jointly develop a version of the Java 2 Platform for Linux, according to this report from InfoWorld.

Lotus Development announced an upgrade to its FastSite software. FastSite 3 lets users of Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite and Corel WordPerfect convert groups of files from more than 25 different file formats into HTML and move them to any Internet, intranet or extranet site.

Here’s an article from Information Week that details Microsoft’s attempt at an XML standard.

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InternetWeek reports that IBM and Extricity Software are announcing an alliance to deliver business-to-business (B2B) solutions worldwide. InternetWeek says that under this agreement, IBM will resell and market Extricity’s AllianceSeries XML-based server platform.

IBM is getting ready for its Unix software and major changes to its server computer architecture. According to News.com, this comes after IBM’s completed acquisition of Sequent.

Computer Reseller News reports that IBM plans to extend its SolutionPartnership Centers to test third-party Linux applications on Netfinity servers.

Here’s an article from Computerworld which takes a look at new Java tools from Sun Microsystems and Symantec.

TRG Products unveiled the ImagePro Deployment Manager. ImagePro Deployment Manager allows IT departments or VARs to create total Palm device software images that can be loaded to non-volatile storage by the user in the field. The ImagePro Deployment Manager is designed to work with Palm OS handheld devices, including those from Palm, IBM and TRG.