Ives Development announced shipment of Edition 11 of the TeamStudio Design System, the company’s suite of software engineering tools for Lotus Notes and Domino. This version of TeamStudio adds full support for the R5 release of Lotus Notes and Domino. The TeamStudio Design System includes five development modules: Analyzer, CIAO! (Client and Server Editions), Configurator, Delta and Librarian.

I know this has nothing to do with news, but I just have to send a special thank you to the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team for taking the world on a great ride the past three weeks. It was a great thing to see. – The girl in Section 26, Row 16, Seat 116

Greg Michetti of the Edmonton Sun takes a look at Lotus, Lycos and Linux.

ReCor Corp. announced two new training courses to help corporations upgrade to Lotus Notes R5. Developed to bring current Domino system administrators and application developers up to speed in R5, these "ReCor Technical Training for Lotus Domino R5 — Moving to Domino R5" courses help administrators install, administer and develop applications for R5.

InfoWorld reports that Lotus will release the Linux Domino server as part of maintenence release 5.0.3 towards the end of the year. Lotus is expected to release 5.0.1 sometime late this week (since it’s now Friday, we can assume it’s today or next week some time). Further, InfoWorld says that Lotus has no places to port SameTime or QuickPlace to Linux.

IBM, Novell, Oracle, Data Connection Limited (DCL), Lotus Development Corp., and ISOCOR today announced that they have established the Directory Interoperability Forum. The Forum

Wired News reports that GeoCities (now under the somewhat uncertain control of Yahoo’s lawyers) has backed down from it’s oppressive terms of service requirements. While this is not directly an on-topic story for us, many of the Web sites that cover our favorite topics are based on GeoCities and this news means there’s less of a chance that they’ll jump ship. Fascinating case. Let’s hope we all learn something from it.

InfoWorld reports Psion, with support from IBM, will produce a new sub-notebook device (NetBook) that will allow users of IBM applications to connect with corporate servers to exchange information while working remotely. The device will support users of IBM’s MQSeries (a messaging application). This will allow mobile applications to exchange data securely with the back-office systems, according to the companies.

For those of you curious about the apparent change in "voice" on the news page, it’s because News Editor Heather McDaniel’s on vacation and your esteemed (but slightly out of control) Editor-in-Chief is writing the news copy in her stead. Sometime next week, it should return to normal (so don’t send your complaint letters just yet).

NEWS.COM reports that HP has discontinued their DOS handheld machines (we had this news days ago, of course). But additionally, this article reports that Toshiba has canned their Libretto mini-laptops. While Toshiba says that technology has passed them by, we (who can’t resist a snipe in their general PR direction) believe it’s because they backed out of their promise to send us review units just before an issue was due and the bad ju-ju just took them down.