Jon Panker, News Editor

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As a user and consultant, what are your favorite aspects of Sametime?

I like the AIM [AOL Instant Messaging] interoperability. I can put AOL users on my list. And I can run it inside with my own services. And then lastly, [I like] the...
Dec 18, 2002
In talking with messaging customers, it seems that enterprise-grade IM is really just being used by regulated industries.

I think that's exactly [right], which is why what I'm saying our approach is a bowling pin type of approach...
Mar 17, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- By enterprise instant messaging standards, Lotus Sametime's three years on the market make it a senior citizen. Yet Lotus and its partners keep pumping new blood into the product. Earlier this week, mobile phone...
Jan 30, 2003

The fifth annual Admin2003 kicks off at the end of next month in Las Vegas, with a heavier focus than in years past on Lotus' Sametime instant messaging and presence awareness tool. Other changes include a greater emphasis on...
Mar 18, 2003

As its annual Lotusphere user conference kicks off in Orlando today, Lotus is expected to make several messaging and development announcements; chief among them are two initiatives designed to appease Domino developers who...
Jan 24, 2003

ORLANDO, Fla. -- After taking more than three years to come out with the latest version of Notes and Domino, Lotus is planning an aggressive release schedule for upcoming iterations of its messaging and collaboration platform.

At...

Feb 5, 2003

ORLANDO -- Lotus is banging the open standards drum like a high school marching band during a parade. And it's pledging to arm Domino shops with the instruments they need to play along.

Kicking off its tenth annual Lotusphere user...

Jan 28, 2003

ORLANDO, Fla. -- On the surface, the U.S. Army, a facility services contractor and a casket manufacturer have little in common. But look closely at their technology infrastructures and you'll find a bond: the innovative use of Lotus...
Jan 30, 2003

CHICAGO -- The taxing job of managing messaging systems isn't going to get any easier.

Matt Cain, senior vice president at Stamford, Conn.-based Meta Group, said messaging headaches will intensify unless businesses change their...

May 5, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Mikael Ankerstjerne, a Notes manager with Danish insurance firm Topdanmark, was scouting the Lotusphere product showcase for tools to manage his messaging infrastructure. At the same time, he was hoping to arm...

Jan 29, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- There are two questions on the tip of nearly every tongue here at Lotusphere 2002: Should I migrate? And, if so, when?

Now that Lotus has officially named Rnext "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 6" and announced the third quarter of...

Jan 30, 2002

IBM reinforced its vertical push today, announcing that it will release a second industry-specific version of its J2EE-based Lotus Workplace line in January.

Lotus Workplace for Consumer Products Customer Management will...

Dec 19, 2003

Winners of the Lotus Awards, formerly called the Lotus Beacon Awards, were announced this morning. Partners were recognized for achievements in collaboration and productivity and will be honored at a special reception at next...

Dec 18, 2003

If you're a news junkie, a stock investor or a sports fanatic, odds are you've created a My Yahoo page to help you track your favorite publications, companies or teams. The Web interface allows users to define the content that they want...

Jan 24, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- IBM Lotus kicked off its eleventh user conference with a message to its installed base that they can leverage their existing Domino environment "with no rip and replace."

Ambuj Goyal, Lotus general manager, told the...

Jan 26, 2004

At its annual user conference later this month, IBM Lotus will try to stem the undercurrent of uncertainty rippling among Domino die-hards.

The company's message: Domino isn't going away.

Expect IBM Lotus to deliver a heavy dose of...

Jan 14, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Four years ago, IBM Lotus tried to cajole customers into deploying a dedicated iSeries server for Domino by giving away a snazzy sports car. Clearly, the promotional hype these days is less flashy, but executives at...

Jan 28, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. _- Outlining Lotus' goal of becoming "the bind of e-business," CEO Al Zollar welcomed 10,000 users to Lotusphere 2001 by introducing a new family of wireless servers, announcing the company would effectively function as an...

Jan 15, 2001
From a research and development standpoint, how much overlap is there among the various IBM software brands?

There's not overlap; we're working the overlap out. When you take the overlap out and have underpinnings -- pieces that you...
Feb 3, 2003

MK Net.Work releases ZipMail 8.0 for Notes

MK Net.Work in Paris, France, is now making available a new version of ZipMail, its ZIP compression and decompression tool for Notes clients. The product is designed to save network...

Sep 12, 2003

Spam -- barely a blip on businesses' radar when researcher Radicati Group conducted a corporate messaging study two years ago -- has emerged as the top priority, according to this year's report.

Sixty-two percent of respondents cited...

Jul 10, 2003

Today, IBM Lotus officially announced Notes and Domino 6.5 and offered new incentives for customers to upgrade.

Companies currently paying Notes maintenance fees that make the move to 6.5 between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 will receive 20...

Sep 22, 2003

IBM Lotus made good on its next-generation strategy today with the release of four products in its Workplace line, the company's open-standards platform, first detailed at this year's Lotusphere.

IBM Lotus Workplace 1.1 now...

Nov 5, 2003

This morning IBM Lotus announced a new component to its J2EE-based Lotus Workplace strategy and said it would detail additional capabilities later this week when it formally takes the wraps off the latest iteration of the...

Nov 3, 2003

This sounds like the beginning of a joke, but here goes.

Two crooks in Italy were loitering outside a tobacco shop. And then they got burned. You might say they had a very bad Kodak moment, although no ordinary camera was involved.

Upon...

Feb 18, 2003
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