Microsoft is offering training vouchers to the first 500 Lotus Notes professionals who want to learn Exchange, SharePoint, and other Microsoft software.

Lotusphere, starting Sunday, is expected to showcase IBM’s commitment to cloud computing and collaboration. Also on the list of highlights is a preview of Notes 9.

Synaptris has opened a public beta for FewClix, an e-mail productivity add-on for Lotus Notes. FewClix allows users to customize their mailbox, quickly find messages, and use their e-mail network to extend their social network.

CommonTime has announced support for the Android OS Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One with its latest release of the mSuite platform, mSuite 5.12 for Lotus Notes users.

In this article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard looks deeper into what causes log databases to get large. He also looks at some of the information that’s recorded in the log,nsf, and then adds some more ideas about how you can deal with it.

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Panasonic has decided to move its users to LotusLive hosted e-mail and toss out Microsoft’s Exchange. The initial migration is expected to include 100,000 employees.

Frank van der Linden wanted to refresh the tree of a Notesview he’d created, but couldn’t find a way to do it using dijit.Tree. Some searching turned up a JavaScript method to accomplish the task.

David Schaffer has a user – a boss – with a problem. He travels a lot and if people send him Quickr links instead of document copies, he can’t access the documents. David is wondering if anyone has a better idea than waiting for the internet to reach "everywhere".

Marc Champoux has updated his presentation on using Smart Upgrade, the Install Shield Tuner, SURunAsWizard, and Policies to deploy 8.5.1 clients. He’s corrected the mis-step where the client wouldn’t log you into Sametime on startup.

Curt Stone offers step one, and maybe step two, of building a Notes application that does workflow. He also provides suggestions on sources for more information.