The Detroit Free Press has this article about the agreement between Lotus and Lycos. Lycos Network software from Lycos will provide news and stock prices for individual users of Lotus Notes.

IBM announced that the official Web site for the Wimbeldon tennis tournament is now live. IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club will serve up the official Web site to fans around the world for the fifth consecutive year. This year’s tournament Web site will capture all the action and excitement of the Championship fortnight June 21-July 4, 1999.

3Com and Aether Technologies plan to announce they are forming a new company to tap the market for accessing e-mail, the Internet and corporate-network information through wireless technology. The companies said OpenSky’s new service will offer real-time access to e-mail, including Web-based e-mail accounts such as Yahoo Inc. e-mail accounts, and business accounts using software from IBM’s Lotus Notes or Microsoft’s Exchange.

Network Computing has this review of Microsoft’s Exchange 5.5. The review takes a look at the good and the bad and explain why it delivers in the long run.

Here’s an article from Information Week explaining the agreement between IBM and Baan. IBM will bundle Baan software into its DB2 Universal Database, link Baan Front Office with Lotus Notes, and implement Baan’s e-commerce applications.

In this editor’s opinion, one of the most crass efforts to sucker consumers was the DIVX format. This format was designed to allow a DVD-like disk to be viewed once or twice, and then the disk would cease functioning. The reasons why this format is horrid are all over the net, but the good news (except for those poor consumers who bought the extra-priced DIVX players and disks) is that DIVX has ceased operations, something your editor considered inevitable. Finally, the DVD standard can move on without division and maybe we’ll finally get Star Wars, Raiders, and Jurassic Park on DVD. And if you haven’t looked into DVD, you should. It’s amazingly cool. — DG

Globalware Computing announced the release of PylonPro Version 2.0. PylonPro v2.0 features a number of enhancements, including the addition of support for Lotus Notes & Domino Release 5.0, as well as full compatibility with the Palm IIIx and Palm V connected organizers from Palm Computing, and the Symbol SPT 1500 product with an integrated bar code scanner.

MSNBC has this article on the incompatibility between Notes 5 and the applications in Lotus SmartSuite 96, SmartSuite 97 and SmartSuite 98, when both Notes and SmartSuite are running at the same time.

Denmark-based IT FACTORY, an international supplier of Notes/Domino development tools and Web-enabled business objects, announced the Company’s launch into the U.S. market with the establishment of its U.S. headquarters and the appointment of David Shimberg to the post of executive vice president, U.S. operations. IT FACTORY has located its U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it can work closely with Lotus in building IT FACTORY’s presence among the Lotus Business Partner community.

Commerce Accelerator version 2.1 is now available from Corporate Image Software for NT, AS/400 and AIX. Commerce Accelerator allows Lotus Domino developers to add instant credit card processing to their applications and web sites. This component connects Domino applications directly to CyberCash servers and paves the way for new classes of e-commerce applications built with Notes and Domino. Commerce Accelerator version 2.1 will be showcased next week at Booth 44 at Devcon99 in San Francisco.