International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that Microsoft’s Exchange has 1.9 million new users in the United States during the first quarter of 1999. Lotus Notes/Domino sold 1.4 million seats during the same time period.

ABC News has this report from Microsoft’s antitrust trial. IBM executive Gary Norris said Microsoft was angry about its 1995 purchase of Lotus Development Corp.

Brooktrout Technology, a Brooktrout company, announced that its TruFax and TR114 Series intelligent fax boards are bundled with Lotus’ Fax for Domino R4.0.

JPH International’s Respond 5.0 is customer-relationship management software based on Lotus Notes R5 that lets service organizations track, monitor, and respond to customer inquiries.

Lotus CEO Jeff Papows participated in a chat session with Enterprise Partner. You can read the transcripts on its Web site.

PC World has this review of Lotus’ QuickPlace workgroup program. The article says that if you use Notes, it’s a simple way to set up Web-based workgroups.

News.com is reporting that Microsoft has begun a small pilot program for its BackOffice suite of software products, allowing a limited number of Internet service providers to begin leasing the products out by subscription.

Here’s an item from TechWeb about Lotus’ decision to drop support for NetWare. According to the article, Lotus president and CEO Jeff Papows confirmed that Lotus plans to launch a Linux version of its Domino server by year’s end, but will not market a version for NetWare.

Federal Computer Week has an article which compares Lotus Notes/Domino R5 to Microsoft’s Exchange 5.5.

Jeff Papows talked about knowledge management in a chat session yesterday. TechWeb reports that Papows said Lotus is ready for battle on the KM field, with nothing to fear from a rival.