Stories by Stephanie Sanborn

Lotus offers Portal Builder for Notes R5

Following a trend toward personalisation, Lotus has presented its Portal Builder for Notes Release 5 (R5), a set of templates and Best Practices Guide that helps Notes R5 users add a custom touch to their Notes environment.

Application Delivery Gets a Modular Twist

Using principles similar to those behind content-delivery networks -- but applying them to application delivery -- AppStream is offering companies a way to get applications to users quickly and in a bandwidth-efficient manner.

Network Appliance Adds to Caching Appliance Family

Network Appliance Inc. on Monday took the wraps off its NetCache 1100 appliance, a Web and streaming media caching device aimed at deployments in remote enterprise offices, as well as in ISPs' POPs (points of presence), to cache HTTP and streaming media content.

IT Officials Split Over Microsoft Breakup

The Department of Justice's proposal to split Microsoft Corp. into two separate companies has touched home in the IT industry, with some observers expressing outrage at the mere suggestion of dividing up the company and others viewing the action as one that might actually benefit the software giant.

Lotus Bluejay prepares for flight

A little more than a year after Lotus Development rolled out Notes Release 5, the company is preparing an extension of its Domino messaging and Web application platform, code-named Bluejay, which will feature a healthy dose of collaboration and interoperability between Lotus Domino and the Microsoft's Office environment.

AVT Focuses CallXpress 5.3 on Mobile Workers

With an increasing number of employees doing their work outside of an office and often away from a desk, AVT is offering companies another option for keeping everyone connected in the mobile working world with the next version of their unified messaging product, CallXpress Enterprise Version 5.30.

Windows ME Gets Re-Networked

After surreptitiously removing some networking features from Windows Millennium Edition (ME) in March, including connections to Novell NetWare and a proposed client for Active Directory, Microsoft Corp. last week returned some, but not all, of the missing capabilities.

Portal Proliferation Benefits E-Business

With the e-commerce market exploding, portals are becoming a key element in bringing together an enterprise's employees, business partners, and customers through one interface. For this reason, portals are rapidly expanding into the b-to-c (business-to-consumer), b-to-b (business-to-business), and business-to-employee arenas.

CMGI, Novell, Sun to Create Hosting Network

Setting their sights on creating a global Internet network to enable a host of profile-based services, CMGI Inc., Novell Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc. joined this week to form a new company known as CMGion.

Consortium Formed to Set Privacy Guidelines

TWENTY-SIX COMPANIES banded together at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles last week to form the Personalization Consortium, in an attempt to tackle some of the tricky privacy issues surrounding personalization technology.

GoShip Tackles I-Commerce Shipping

Realizing that e-commerce needs a boost in the shipping department, GoShip.com has taken aim at consolidating and customizing carrier service for e-commerce vendors.

BroadVision, Sun Set Sights on Java Solutions

BroadVision Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. expanded their existing five-year partnership on Monday, teaming up to develop a set of e-commerce applications based on J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) technology.

Novell partners to ease network sign-ons

Novell and Passlogix have teamed to integrate Passlogix v-GO single sign-on technology with future Novell Internet services products, such as ZENworks network management and iChain e-business products and services.

BRAINSHARE - Novell Details Far-Reaching Product Road Map

Novell used the second day of BrainShare 2000 here to map out future plans for some of its products and define how they fit into the company's new DENIM (Directory-Enabled Net Infrastructure Model) structure, including GroupWise, digitalme and instantme identity-related products, Novell Cluster Services (NCS), and Novell Internet Messaging System (NIMS).

Novell Details Far-Reaching Product Road Map

Novell Inc. used the second day of BrainShare 2000 here to map out future plans for some of its products and define how they fit into the company's new DENIM (Directory-Enabled Net Infrastructure Model) structure, including GroupWise, digitalme and instantme identity-related products, Novell Cluster Services (NCS), and Novell Internet Messaging System (NIMS).

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