N-Soft announced that its award-winning Etrog CTI software development platform is now available in the United States through its subsidiary, N-Soft of North America. Etrog combines the industry’s most popular and commercially viable technologies such as ActiveX, CT-Connect, TCP/IP, and other industry standards to enable client/server developers to easily integrate and control telephone communications from PC-based client applications.

PC Week examines knowledge management applications from Lotus, PC Docs/Fulcrum, and Powerize.com.

Thanks to reader Scott Kingery for letting us know that the final build (build 164.1) before the release of R5 is available for download from Notes.net.

Thanks to PowerBoard Host Ralph Horn for sending in the following item. IB Systems, Inc. is considering offering free domino hosting. They have a Free Domino Hosting Survey button on the home page of their web site.

SolutionPlanet Ltd. announces planet.sfa, which addresses the need for standard solutions for companies using the Intranet. Planet.sfa is platform independent as it runs as well on the lightweight browser as on the full featured Notes client. It is translatable into virtually any language without add-on tools or programming knowledge.

PC Magazine has a review of Royal’s daVinci PDA. The daVinci can be synchronized with popular PIMs such as GoldMine, Lotus Organizer, Microsoft Outlook and Schedule+, and Symantec Corp.’s ACT! via CompanionLink software, a $40 option.

PC Week has this story which looks back at Lotusphere ’99. The article takes a looks at announcements such as Lotus’ move to support Linux and the new IBM Institute for Knowledge Management.

Lotus Development Corp. outsold Microsoft Corp. for corporate messaging seat sales last quarter.Lotus ended up with 5 million seats sold by the close of last quarter, said Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems (EMMS), a Washington, D.C.-based newsletter that tracks the industry.

3Com Corp. announced Japanese language support for all products based on its Palm Computing platform. The company has developed a Japanese language-enabled version of the Palm OS software. The following partners and developers will be supporting or delivering products for the Palm Computing platform in Japan: Oracle, Teamsoft/Nippon, Polaroid, Puma, TRG, Netscape, Remedy, Lotus, Landware, Aportis, Concept Kitchen, IOData and Accton Technologies.

Here’s a review of Sametime 1.0 from Lotus. According to the review in InfoWorld, the bottom line is "very good."