Interactive Week has this article on the delay of Lotus Notes/Domino R5. This announcement puts a dent in the huge advertising campaign Lotus has been running in newspapers and on television.

Omtool Ltd. announced the availability of Fax Sr. Express, a new version of its Fax Sr. network fax server designed for small businesses and for workgroups and remote offices within larger organizations.

Sun Microsystems announced an enhanced clustering software solution that gives customers mainframe-class reliability on high-performance Web-enabled platforms. The new Sun Cluster 2.2 software is part of the Sun datacenter.com initiative. The new Sun Cluster 2.2 solution provides support for Oracle, Tivoli, Lotus Notes, Netscape, Oracle Parallel Server (OPS), and other applications.

ZDNN takes a look at what to expect from Linux in 1999. According to the article, Linux ports are due to be released from database vendors Oracle and IBM, server vendor Netscape Communications, and groupware vendor Lotus Development Corp.

In case you don’t have a Real Player, you can check out PC Week’s article about Microsoft’s knowledge management applications, code-named Tahoe and Polar Server.

The New York Yankees needed to update their legacy systems and create an end-to-end network that would allow information sharing between New York-based Yankee Stadium’s business office and two offices in the team’s Tampa, Fla., spring training camp. VAR Business explains how they got the job done.

Thanks to our Senior Technical Editor Richard Echeandia for sending in the following item from PC Week’s RealAudio broadcast. It looks like Microsoft is going right after Lotus’ Domino with its own knowledge management applications. You will need Real Player for this broadcast.

Computer Shopper has this review of Lotus Organizer Version 5.0. Version 5.0 includes an EasySync feature, which provides synchronization between Organizer 5.0 and your PDA.

Lotus’ Web site has an article about Microsoft’s response to the launch of R5.

VAR Business has an article about how Bell Atlantic got help from Vision Associates. Vision Associates was able to fill Bell Atlantic’s needs using IBM’s Intelligent Decision Server (IDS), which lets end users request information they need via e-mail.