Lotus’ Super.Human.Software Tour kicks off on April 6 in Washington, DC. The tour will have a dozen stops in the United States and Canada. For more information, check out Lotus’ Web site.

Thanks to reader Jeff Gunther ffor sending in this item from VNU Net in the United Kingdom. According to the folks at VNU Net, Lotus has committed to delivering Notes/Domino R5 on March 31.

Puma Technology announced that it is partnering with Novell, Inc. to jointly develop Intellisync Anywhere for GroupWise. Puma also announced it will be participating in Brainshare’99 in Salt Lake City, Utah from March 21 to March 26 to demonstrate its Intellisync solutions for GroupWise.

USWeb/CKS announced an agreement that strengthens the firm’s support of IBM and Lotus technology. As part of the agreement, USWeb/CKS will expand its Business Systems Practice and increase internal training around various IBM and Lotus e-business technology.

In his new book "Business the Speed of Thought," Bill Gates says that email is a major management tool at Microsoft, even though his email is being held against him in Microsoft’s antitrust trial.

ReCor Corp. announced a joint development and marketing partnership with Infotec. The partnership focuses on developing and marketing distance learning for Lotus Notes 5 using LearningSpace.

We’re experiencing a lovely winter storm here in the north Eastern portion of the US. Courtesy of Mother Nature’s storm, our building (and presumably the surrounding community) lost power for the period of late Sunday evening through about 8AM Monday morning. Our UPSs tried valiantly to keep the servers running, but they weren’t able to soldier through an eight hour power failure. Our systems are now back up, but since there’s more snow in the forecast, there’s always the chance of further downtimes in the next 24 hours.

IBM announced last week that it will improve its its midrange AS/400 servers. According to Information Week, the improved servers will let IS managers run Domino workflow applications on the same system that runs their legacy software.

PC Week reports that Novell is gearing up for a product launch during its BrainShare user conference next week. Novell plans to demomstrate a GroupWise Plug-In for Microsoft Outlook.

WebTrends Corporation announced it has been named as one of the first affiliate members into the Web Host Guild. This newly formed professional organization certifies web hosts with a seal of approval if they continuously meet stringent certification criteria.