Macromedia and Lotus Development announced an agreement that will give businesses, schools and other organizations a means of creating, delivering, tracking and managing Web-based training and coursework. Under the agreement, Lotus will purchase the Macromedia Pathware business and distribute certain other of Macromedia’s authoring software for Web-based learning. Pathware is Macromedia’s learning management system. The Macromedia group that develops and markets Pathware will become part of Lotus’ Distributed Learning Business Group. Macromedia will continue to ship, sell and support Pathware until a transition to the Lotus Distributed Learning Division is completed. Lotus will then sell and support Pathware as a stand-alone product.

Percussion Software announced that France-based Somfy has improved manufacturing efficiencies via Percussion PowerFlow’s automation capabilities. Using PowerFlow, the company has set up a single automated workflow that enables all appropriate individuals in 15 departments to review the proposed manufacturing equipment modifications in a timely manner.

Globalware Computing announced today that it has begun shipping Pylon ServerSync 2.5 Gold, an integrated Domino/Lotus Notes and handheld server solution that allows users to distribute custom Notes databases to multiple Palm computer users.

System Software Associates announced the integration of Mobile Sales Suite (MSS) into eBPCS and earlier BPCS versions. Mobile Sales Suite is a Lotus Domino sales force automation solution authored by Total Solutions Group (TSG).

WebTrends announced strategic marketing and sales initiatives to meet the demands of clustered, high availability Web sites. The solution combines Cisco System’s LocalDirector and WebTrends’ reporting product to provide a management and analysis solution for high traffic web sites.

Global Compliance, LLC, announced Enterprise Desktop for Domino.Doc. Enterprise Desktop gives organizations an alternative interface to the Lotus Notes and Web browser interfaces that come standard with Domino.Doc.

Lotus Development Corp. announced 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. Lotus Sametime 1.5 is expected to be available within 30 days.

This article from the Sydney Morning Herald examines security problems in corporate systems and how they can be prevented.

planet.talk is a free chat software now available for download from SolutionPlanet. The solution is developed for the Lotus Domino server (version 4.6) and is intended for intranet, extranet or internet use. The text messages displayed to the user can be translated to virtually any language.

IT Factory announced shipment of the latest release of the company’s software development kit and business application suite for Lotus Notes/Domino. The latest release, version 4.99, solution set gives Notes developers a host of new development tools, including an Analyzer tool for testing Y2K compliance of Notes applications.