News.com has this brief item which reports that a former Lotus Development executive has accused the company of allowing president Jeff Papows and his longtime executive assistant to harass female managers. The initial reports once again came from the Wall Street Journal.

GWI Software announced that Stephanie Fuhrman has been promoted to president and Chris Johnston has been promoted to vice president of sales. Both Ms. Fuhrman and Mr. Johnston will report directly to Daren Nelson, the company

Lotus today announced that Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, will join other industry visionaries at Lotus DevCon99 — June 20-23 in San Francisco, California. Torvalds will deliver a keynote address to thousands of corporate developers, Web developers and Lotus Business Partners attending this year’s conference from around the world.

Ipswitch, Inc. announced WhatsUp Gold 4.0, the latest version of its network mapping, monitoring and notification software package. A new custom services monitoring capability lets users create custom service definitions that may be specified for monitoring on any device or map. Users can quickly set up monitoring definitions for popular applications such as Lotus Notes, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Exchange or others.

PC Data reported that corporate software channel sales for IBM and Lotus dropped dramatically in year-over-year first-quarter comparisons. Computer Reseller News speculates this is due to the delay of shipping Notes/Domino R5.

Lotus released the beta version of Domino Media Connection Services for RealSystem G2, a product developed through its integration deal with RealNetworks.

PC Week takes a look at three leading groupware packages – Lotus Development Corp.’s Domino/Notes, Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange and Novell Corp.’s GroupWise.

The partnership between Lotus and RealNetworks has resulted in the beta version of Domino Media Connection Services (DMCS). DMCS, planned for delivery this summer, allows users to add streaming media to a Domino rich text field, for playback through a Notes client or through a browser.

Rhizomatics released Domino BannerAd v1.3. Version 1.3 includes client reporting, domain analysis of sites and ads, browser analysis (summary and/or detailed) of sites and ads. Domino BannerAd is still free.

In a move to address growing demand for e-mail and groupware integration and migration services, American Eagle Group, Inc., ECOM Group, Inc., Global Systems Services Corporation, and Siekmann Consulting today announced the formation of Pantheon Group, LLC. Pantheon is a vendor-neutral global messaging integrator for Global 2000 companies, government agencies, and major messaging product vendors.