Lotus Development Corp. announced that it has acquired ONEStone Holding, Inc. and its workflow software technologies to enhance the ability of Lotus’ customers to develop productivity-boosting workflow applications. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Information Week has this story on the groupware race between Lotus and Microsoft.

At DemoMobile ’99 in San Diego, IBM unveiled its WorkPad z50, based on Windows CE. According to PC Week, emphasis will be placed on connectivity to groupware such as Lotus Notes.

Lotus EasySync 3.0 for Notes gives users a way to synchronize their e-mail, calendar, tasks, contact and memo information between Notes and Palm OS platform devices. Notes R5 gives users the ability to establish categories when creating To Do tasks, a feature which is also supported on the To Do application on the handheld device.

News.com has this article wich asks if Lotus can eliminate its "one-product image". The article says that since Lotus was founded, the company has been driven by one key product.

SVI Holdings announced that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with IBM to integrate key IBM e-business software with SVI’s e-Host. SVI will incorporate DB2 Universal Database, Intelligent Miner for Data, IBM Net.Commerce, IBM WebSphere, IBM eNetwork Firewall, and Lotus Notes and Domino Release 5, together with SVI’s own proprietary software to create the e-Host solution.

MacWeek reports that Lotus is beta-testing Mac versions of Release 5 of Lotus Notes and Domino Designer, with final versions due by July’s Macworld Expo in New York.

Here’s an article from News.com on Knowledge Management. Knowledge management has become a buzz-phrase in the collaborative software industry with help from Lotus.

Allied Domecq Wines, USA, has announced the launch of TheWine Spot, a wine appreciation and wine educational site on the Web. Using Lotus’ Domino R5 as their Web application server platform, and Domino Designer R5 as the integrated development environment, ADWUSA was able to leverage information already contained in a Lotus Notes format directly onto the Web.

Comply Y2K has developed a centralized database capable of searching out the latest updates, patches and compliance documentation on over 1,400 manufacturers and 12,000 products.