Windows Magazine takes a quick look at Sametime Server 1.0 from Lotus. Sametime 1.0 is a server-based collaboration program that allows anyone with a Java-enabled Web browser to share applications, whiteboards, and chat sessions.

Computerworks announced the upcoming release of InterTrac R5. It is a Notes application that can be used for all aspects of managing people, issues, documents, relationships, communication, and time.

Ives Development announced that IBM Corporation has purchased a worldwide user license for Ives Development’s ‘TeamStudio Design System,’ a modular suite of software engineering tools for Lotus Notes and Domino developers. This new license agreement provides any Notes/Domino developer within IBM and its subsidiary companies worldwide, including Lotus Development, with access to any of the TeamStudio tools.

EntreVision announced EntreVision Perspective 3.1a, an upgrade to its Domino site logging tool. EntreVision Perspective tracks and reports site activity, translating visits to your Domino-based Web sites and applications into meaningful information.

Rhizomatics announced the latest addition to its clutch of Domino web tools. Media Store is a media archive for Domino, the place to store, sort, manage and present your sights and sounds to the web. It ships with a set of pre-registered file types – for BMP, GIF, WAV etc – which are freely extensible for any other file type.

Thanks to reader Ozero Lee for sending in this article in Information Week about R5. The article has a detailed look at what R5 can and can’t do.

Excite and Starfish Software demonstrated a pre-release of the Excite Planner. Built on Starfish’s TrueSync Server Technology, the Excite Planner will allow users to synchronize their information with handheld devices and desktop organizers including 3Com Palm devices, Hewlett-Packard Windows CE devices, Lotus Organizer, and Lotus Notes.

News.com is reporting that the competition between Microsoft and Lotus is heating up. As both companies have been actively trying to grab the groupware market lead, they are now moving on to the knowledge management market.

Ricoh Corporation is extending its Image Communication vision to include solutions for IBM’s Lotus Notes environment. NuOffice software enables Lotus Domino to support the Salutation Architecture. It allows users to communicate information and images among any Lotus Notes-enabled networked computer or office peripheral, whether in the office or on the road.

In the April 9, 1999 edition of Exchange Server UPDATE, an e-mail newsletter to Exchange administrators from Windows NT Magazine, editor Jerry Cochran included a cover letter about R5 of Notes, Domino, and Domino Designer. Lotus has excerpts posted on their Web site.