Thanks again to reader Siva Ramanathan for sending in this item from Windows Magazine. This article is a review of the Domino/Notes R5 Beta.

PC Week reports that Lotus Development Corp. will release FastSite 2.0 next week. FastSite, designed primarily for corporate intranets, enables users to gather a batch of documents, choose a design for them and automatically convert them to HTML for publishing to a Web server.

Thanks to reader Siva Ramanathan for sending in this article about where Lotus Notes is today.

AvantGo, Inc. and Puma Technology, Inc. will jointly deliver the Mobile Application Link development platform based on AvantGo’s open source code and shaped by Puma’s small device and enterprise application synchronization expertise. End users will benefit from the Mobile Application Link initiative through access to multiple applications from handheld devices, including e-mail, Web content, groupware such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, corporate intranets and corporate databases.

Read how Lotus Consulting has increased enrollment at Northern Territory University in Austrailia. Even though NTU is spread out over five campuses throughout Australia’s isolated outback, it now contends successfully with urban universities in Australia, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia.

PC Week reports that Notes R5 Beta 2 delivers on many of the client customization and information management improvements that Lotus promised earlier this year when it announced that native support for HTML and other Internet protocols would be the foundation for Release 5.

Forbes Magazine has this article on how Silicon Valley rivals decry Microsoft’s tough tactics. The article says that Sun Microsystems, Netscape, and Apple are just as guilty for using similar tactics.

The Chicago Sun-Times has this article on Netscape Communications Corp. CEO Jim Barksdale. In the article, Barksdale explains why the AOL offer was one he could not refuse.

dotOne Corporation and Lotus Development Corporation have entered into a license and marketing agreement to distribute dotOne software and documentation to cc:Mail customers as a bundled solution. dotOne will also receive a worldwide license to promote cc:Mail for the World Wide Web via dotOne’s Web site.

Thanks to reader Joe Whited for sending in this item from Novell’s website. Novell is thinking of offering TIDs (technical information documents) for their popular products in a handheld compatible format. They are asking visitors to their support web site to complete a survey regarding if and what form they should offer this service in.