CNNfn has this story on how Lotus founder Mitch Kapor went from head of Lotus to become an angel investor.

Lotus now offers cc:Mail Upgrade Wizard 4.6.3. This Wizard lets users migrate their mail archives, and personal address books, including directories and mailing lists from cc:Mail to Notes without requiring the assistance of an administrator. The Wizard will walk you through the steps necessary, letting you choose what cc:Mail data to upgrade and what data to leave behind.

The next Advisor DevCon on Lotus Domino, Notes & Java is March 28 – 31, 1999 at the Sheraton El Conquistador in Tucson, Arizona. You’ll get dozens of drill-down sessions on developing with Notes and Domino R4 and R5, presented by the leading independent and Lotus experts. If you want candid answers to hard questions, we hope you’ll attend Advisor DevCon. Early bird registration is $995. Register by February 16, 1999 and you’ll save $200.

Trend Micro Inc. announced detection for the Remote Explorer virus via its free on-line scanning service, HouseCall. While Remote Explorer was reported to have infected multiple computer systems at one organization last week, Trend Micro has no reports regarding this new virus from any of its customers and believes this is most likely an isolated incident that does not pose a serious threat at this time.

Domino Designer R5 is a visual, integrated development environment providing the fastest way to develop and deploy Web applications for business. Read this Point of View about Domino Designer R5 at the R5 Preview page.

Since our Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz is not Ebineezer Scrooge, we will not post news until Monday, December 27. Have a great holiday

IBM and Lotus announced the release of the LotusXSL processor, which the two companies hailed as one of the first Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) implementations to be based on the W3C’s newly released working draft of the XSL specification.

Interactive Week has this re-cap on what happened in the IT world this past year. Stories include the Microsoft trial, the AOL-Netscape deal, and tech stocks. http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,381606,00.html

PC Week has this article about how XML could give groupware products more integration capabilities.

Lotus and Sylvan Prometric have collaborated on a training and testing promotions for updating Lotus certification by creating the "CLP FastTrack to R5 Certification" program. Special R5 CLP (Certified Lotus Professional) test prep bundles are available for the Application Developer and System Administrator tracks, each including CBT modules from CBT Systems covering exam objectives, vouchers for any two Lotus exams, and a Lotus Exam Guide.