ID Four Limited announced they will make the beta version of eContact 2000 available for trial purposes effective the week of May 3, 1999 at a minimal shipping and handling cost of $9.99. eContact 2000 shares, links and exchanges data seamlessly with a host of systems such as Microsoft Office 97, Corel WordPerfect Suite and Lotus Smartsuite.

Lotus has this item posted on their Web site about the easy use of QuickPlace.

Lotus Development Corp. today announced that it will host the second annual Lotus Global Government Forum (LGGF) in Brussels from May 25 to 27, 1999. A forum for government administrators and Information Technology (IT) executives from around the world, the LGGF will bring together more than 150 leading IT thinkers and practitioners from the public sector and defense to explore and learn from each other’s experiences implementing computer-based services and solutions in their countries and regions.

Tribeca Software announced their newest software application NetCFO 2.0. NetCFO is an accounting system for monitoring and charging back for traffic over corporate enterprise networks. The product allows IT managers to accurately understand and monitor usage of an enterprise network and provide detailed reports. These reports allow for a more precise budgeting process and give network managers a better understanding of which users and departments are using more bandwidth on the corporate network.

United Messaging announced that it has joined forces with Cisco Systems to help small and growing businesses use electronic messaging solutions. The approach will include integrating Cisco’s network capabilities to enhance United Messaging’s e-mail network services.

Lotus recently added new platforms and languages to Notes/Domino Release 5. Some of these include Domino for the AS/400, as well as Notes clients and Domino servers for Windows in Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.

Allegro announced that it is offering e-mail content filtering services free of charge to businesses who want to block the 22 megabyte Star Wars: Episode I trailer video file, called Phantom Menace.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Enterprise was announced by Dragon Systems. The new Dragon NaturallySpeaking Enterprise software allows network administrators to install and manage Dragon NaturallySpeaking software from a central location. Network administrators can use the new Administrator Workbench to create and delete users, update vocabularies and speech commands.

Stampede Technologies began shipping its TurboGold Server-to-Server accelerator product for Lotus Notes. Stampede now brings its acceleration technology to Domino Servers.

PC Magazine has this review of Norton’s Anti-Virus software for Notes and Exchange.