HyperOffice, a portal publishing and management application, was previewed at the IBM Lotusphere 2009 Conference. HyperOffice Site Publisher integrates into IBM Bluehouse enabling employees, business partners and other users to share documents, collaborate on team projects, host online meetings, and build social-networking communities.

Permessa IM License Auditor for IBM Lotus Sametime makes the IBM Lotus Sametime license count faster and easier to help keep companies from paying for many or too few Lotus Sametime licenses. Permessa, in partnership with Wintergreen Research, has also released their ROI Calculator for IBM Lotus Domino Messaging to help justify IT expenditures.

Jan Schulz’s Domino server was working fine until after the 8.0.2 update was applied. Then it started having problems and needed to be restarted regularly. It took a while to find the problem, at least Jan thinks the problem has been identified. If you know something about it, Jan would like to hear from you.

In this quick article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz discusses his first impressions of Lotusphere 2009.

Read this DominoPower article.

Jesper Kiaer has been waiting for GZip support on Domino for a long time, so he asked one of the developers at Lotusphere how much longer he needed to wait. The answer he got was welcome.

GFI Belgium is launching "d-works" at Lotusphere 2009. d-works is an IBM Lotus Domino based Enterprise 2.0 collaborative platform for small and medium sized businesses uniting the newest Web 2.0 developments with traditional business applications.

Ytria, Inc. is previewing "Mayo" at Lotusphere 2009. This upcoming utility package for the Lotus Notes client features a host of add-ons designed to let users find databases quickly; fix conflicts; quickly analyze data; and more.

SGA Business Systems, Inc. and LavaTech, Inc. have announced RainbowSync and RainbowSync.net. Together these products import fileshares into an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino database for secure access and manage those databases.

The Eclipse Foundation announced a major upgrade to the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, PDT 2.0, with a focus on adding support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP.

Mainsoft Corporation announced the preview of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for IBM Lotus Notes 8.5. This release of Mainsoft’s client-side plug-in for Lotus Notes supports the integration of custom IBM Lotus Domino and Java applications with SharePoint document libraries.