Lotus announced the availability of the Domino Connector for PeopleSoft. With the Domino Connector for PeopleSoft, enterprise users can leverage up-to-the-minute, live PeopleSoft data within business applications to process requests.

Computer Reseller News has this article on Lotus’ move to Linux. The article examines whether there is a need for a Domino server on Linux or not.

Remember the controversy last year when Forbes Magazine wrote a lengthy article about Lotus losing ground in the groupware race? Well, Forbes takes this trip down memory lane, claiming they were right about some things, and wrong about others.

Corporate Image Software shipped E-Business Extensions for Lotus Domino version 1.2. E-Business Extensions (formerly DoubleSixes/XML) is a LotusScript class library that enables new functionality for building e-business solutions, including real-time networking, XML processing and dynamic data tabulation. Version 1.2 adds HTTP form posting, file upload, DNS and Ping operations for LotusScript.

The Lotus Notes User Group Notes & Domino Solutions Conference will be held on October 14 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference is designed to bring industry experts together and share their solutions. It is a one-day event that will provide hands-on lab sessions for Notes R5, an industry trade shows floor, and general sessions that will provide solutions for Notes/Domino users, administrators, developers, and IT professionals and executives.

Sometimes I get a chance to say "wow", when I look at my life. Today was one such day. Today, Ted Nelson, my former boss back at Creative Computing Magazine (we’re talking 1979 here), released Xanadu to the world as open source. The whole Xanadu project changed my life. I didn’t know computers could be so cool until the Xanadu guys, back in 1979, showed me the cool. They never really went anywhere with it, but they inspired everyone with it, and its ideas are at the heart of much of our world today. Interestingly, another of my old bosses, Dave Winer, attended the session where Ted opened Xanadu. He’s another special guy who’s subtly influenced much of the word of computing. So today, you get to read one of my old bosses (Dave) talking about another (Ted). If you wonder sometimes where some of the heart and soul of ZATZ comes from, it’s because I had good teachers.

News.com reports that the Microsoft-Qualcomm venture to bring wireless services to people will be delayed until the first quarter of next year. The wireless service, called Revolv, enables people to access information from Microsoft Exchange-based servers through wireless devices.

AOL released version 3.0 of its instant messaging software. According to InternetNews.com, new to version 3.0 are a customized news and stock ticker, buddy list icons, and an auto-reconnect option.

PC World has this article about the next release of Lotus Notes and Domino, code named R-Next. According to the article, R-Next is expected to be released in mid-2000.

InfoWorld has this article which says that Lotus plans to extend its Mobile Services for Domino (MSD) 2.0 to handhelds running Epoc 32, Windows CE and the Palm operating system. MSD 2.0 is scheduled to be released early next year.