Trend Micro Inc. announced the discovery of the first virus to target Microsoft’s yet to be released Office 2000 application. "W2KM_PSD" can infect both Word 2000 and Word 97 documents. While this virus has not yet been spotted at any customer sites, Trend Micro has updated its free online scanning service, HouseCall so concerned users of Word 97 and Word 2000(Beta2) can reassure themselves that the virus is not in their system.

Looking for the ideal Notes or Domino position? There are a bunch of hot listings on the DominoPower PowerBoards. Just visit the classifieds and perhaps the next dream job will be yours.

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Relavis Corporation, developers of OverQuota, was awarded the prestigious Beacon Award for "Best in Lotusphere Showcase" by Lotus Development Corporation last night. The product is extensible through tools such as OverQuota-EIS, hand-held device integration with 3Com’s PalmPilot, full integration of Target Account Selling and multi-platform support for IBM’s Native Domino/ Notes on the AS/400, RS/6000 and S/390. OverQuota has taken the lead in multi-currency support for transitional EURO and EURO, as well as multi-language capability including 32bit Kanji.

After an address by Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, Lotus CEO Jeff Papows said that the latest version of Notes and Domino will ship in February. A Linux version of Domino will ship later in the year.

Omtool Ltd. announced a new version of its Fax Sr. network fax server software that has been designed specifically for the Lotus Notes environment. Fax Sr. provides scalability and reliability for large enterprise deployments, including server clustering, load sharing, least-cost-routing and support for a virtually unlimited number of fax modem ports.

A record 28,800 users running off a single copy of Lotus Domino on an IBM RS/6000 server with the AIX operating system was measured using the Lotus NotesBench standard. The record 28,800 mail users was set on an RS/6000 EnterpriseServer S70 with 12 Northstar processors. It uses the AIX 4.3 operatingsystem and Lotus Domino 4.6 server software. In the NotesBench testing, the average user response time was measured at less than one second. That measurement indicates that each command to open an e-mail note, for example, was executed by the server in less than one second.

Computer Reseller News has been covering all of the events at Lotusphere this week. Here’s a list of stories covering the major announcements of the week.

InfoAccess Inc. announced Transit Central EDM for Lotus Domino.Doc which will extend Domino.Doc to include standards-based Web publishing power and automation. Using Transit Central EDM, Domino.Doc users will be able to select source documents directly from the Domino.Doc database for publication, and then publish the finished Web pages to a Website or back into a Lotus Notes database for access via Domino.

Lotus previewed two new eSuite products at Lotusphere user conference. The products are eSuite DevPack 2.0 and eSuite WorkPlace 2.0 for its Domino Web-enabled communications server. According to News.com, Both products are expected to ship in April.