InfoWorld had this review of Lotus Notes/Domino Release 5. According to the review, "Notes/Domino delivers killer ROI."

Lotus has this story of how the Plano, Texas Police Department uses Notes and Domino to get the bad guys.

Lotus announced the North American portion of Super.Human.Software Tour ’99, a tour of one-day conferences and exhibitions covering 13 cities from April 6 through September 16. These seminars revolve around the launch of Release 5 (R5) of Lotus Notes, Domino and Domino Designer.

Sybari Software announced the immediate availability of an upgrade to Antigen 3.15 which provides full support for Domino R5. Antigen 3.15 protects all aspects of the Domino server by providing real-time mail stream and database virus protection. This release also includes support for the new R5 feature of multiple MAIL.BOX databases.

Casahl Technology announced that its Replic-Action software is compatible with Lotus Development Corporation’s entire new line of R5 products.

Lotus announced a series of teleseminars designed to offer the latest information and tools on upgrading from either Lotus cc:Mail or from a wide variety of messaging systems to Lotus’ latest messaging solutions, Release 5 of Notes and Domino.

Ives Development announced TeamStudio Librarian, the latest addition to the TeamStudio suite of software engineering tools for Lotus Notes and Domino. TeamStudio Librarian enables the principle of code reuse in a Notes and Domino development team, by providing a way for developers to build libraries of sharable design elements, such as subforms, agents and script libraries.

Multicosm announced Refindment for Lotus Notes. Refindment enables searches across Notes databases enterprise-wide and better organizes information with theming and summarization features.

Lotus executives talk about R5. The seven minute video features Lotus President and CEO Jeff Papows, Lotus Senior VP of the Communications Products Divsion Eileen Rudden, Iris President Steve Beckhardt, and Iris CTO Tim Halvorsen. To view the video, you need Real Player G2.

Commerce Accelerator version 2.0 is now available from Corporate Image Software. Commerce Accelerator allows Lotus Domino developers to add credit card processing to their applications and web sites. This component connects Domino applications directly to CyberCash servers and paves the way for new classes of e-commerce applications built with Notes and Domino. A free evaluation version is available for download.