Corporate Image Software and partners will demonstrate enhanced support for international credit card and debit card payments in Commerce Accelerator. In addition to supporting CyberCash in the US, this connector for LotusScript now supports Barclays ePDQ service in the UK and the new industry standard SET (Secure Electronic Transactions) protocol. Integration with the IT Factory architecture, SDK and tool set will also be featured.

This article from ZDNN reports that while Novell has been struggling with a marketing crisis, they will introduce version 1.1 of their Internet Caching System (ICS) next week. ICS is a server appliance for service providers that want to speed up Web page delivery.

Information Week has this review of IBM’s DB2. The review says that this new version isn’t a great leap from the previous version, version 5.2.

Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Oracle, Palm Computing and Symbian are joining forces in the GPRS Applications Alliance (GAA), a cross-industry initiative designed to serve as a catalyst in the advancement of applications based on the new mobile packet switching technology, GPRS. GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) introduces packet data to mobile networks and is a step for GSM and TDMA operators in the evolution to third generation mobile networks, enabling a range of new and enhanced services in a mobile environment.

InstallShield Software Corporation announced a licensing agreement with Lotus Development. The agreement allows Lotus to redistribute InstallShield’s Internet-based packaging solution, PackageForTheWeb, with Lotus Sametime release 1.5, the new version of Lotus’ real-time collaboration platform that allows users to find other online users, converse and collaborate live over a corporate intranet or the Internet.

VSI (V-Systems, Inc.) announced the worldwide roll-out of its Lotus Notes fax solution for the enterprise, VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0.1 for Lotus Notes Release 5 (R5). In addition to complete R5 compatibility, enhancements specific to VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0.1 include HP ScanJet and Brooktrout NetAccess board support.

enCommerce announced that its getAccess software will integrate with Lotus Development Corp.’s Domino Application Server Release 5 (R5). In late November, enCommerce will ship the getAccess Runtime for Domino R5, which allows customers integrating the getAccess secure e-business portal management solution with Domino-managed resources to deploy and manage these solutions without making substantial modifications to the getAccess or Domino architectures.

Lotus Development Corp. announced that Capella University has selected Lotus LearningSpace as its exclusive distributed learning solution. With well over 100 courses offered online each quarter and enrollment growth of more than 86 percent a year, Capella offers graduate degrees, certificates and continuing education courses to more than 1,400 professionals from across the country and around the world.

InfoWorld takes a look at the alpha release of Domino R5 for Linux. According to their tests, Domino R5 for Linux is a step forward.

News.com is reporting that Microsoft is courting InfoImage, a longtime Lotus partner, to supply software and consulting services to companies that want to integrate information from corporate systems, email, and the Web into a single view on corporate desktops. Micorsoft benefits from this because that allows businesses to create customized versions of Microsoft’s Outlook 2000 email software.