click2learn.com and Knowledge Quest announced a strategic partnership to distribute Knowledge Quest’s online IT courses through click2learn.com, the new learning portal that automates the creation, delivery, tracking and access to a wide variety of off-the-shelf and unique Web-based content. Knowledge Quest courses focus on teaching the basics of applications such as Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, and Intuit’s Quicken.

RemedyTemp has been featured by Lotus/Macromedia as a reference for Internet based training. The company has been in the process of implementing an enterprise wide, Internet based operational system that will serve as the platform for internal operations as well as e-commerce services to its client companies.

Hummingbird Communications launched the Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit, a tool set that provides enterprises with the ability to construct knowledge portals. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit is a complete solution designed so that it can also plug into Hummingbird’s Enterprise Information Portal (EIP), scheduled for beta release next month. The Fulcrum Portal Builder Kit consists of DOCSFulcrum 3.0, Fulcrum SearchServer 4.0, and the new Knowledge Manager Workstation 1.0 (KMW). KMW permits an organization to modify the generated taxonomy to conform to its own particular terminology.

Lotus Domino R5 for Linux/x86 Gold is here. You can download it at Notes.net.

Actioneer announced that CVS.com, PalmGear H.Q.com, and RetailCanada.com have signed as Preferred Providers, under a partnership program for the Actioneer Smart Portal service. The Actioneer Smart Portal provides enhanced access to the Calendar and To Do functions of electronic organizers, including Lotus Notes 4.5, 4.6 and R5, Microsoft Outlook and Palm Desktop.

Here’s an article from CNN that says Red Hat Software might get into the handheld market. They report that Red Hat will develop and offer Cygnus’ Embedded Cygnus Operating System (eCos), which is an embedded Linux-like operating system suitable for devices such as handheld computers and cellular phones.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, news will not be posted on Thursday and Friday. News will resume on Monday November 29.

TechWeb is reporting that there’s a new strain of the Melissa virus, called Melissa.w, has hit three major banks in the United Kingdom and is spreading to businesses. TechWeb says that Melissa.w, is contagious because it replicates by emailing copies of itself to the first 50 addresses listed in the Outlook address book on any machine it infects. The virus then attempts to format the hard drives of infected computers on Dec. 25.

Com Tech Communications has released MailProbe Discovery, a mail logging and analysis tool for Lotus Domino/Notes. MailProbe Discovery collects and logs information about each email message including sender and recipient information, size, storage impact on the network, file attachments (name, type and size).

WebTrends Corporation released CommerceTrends v2.0. New in this release is functionality that enables customers to store Web site customer information in Oracle 8i and Microsoft SQL 7.0 databases.