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• Qld transport department prepares to dump Lotus Notes

  Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads is preparing to ditch its IBM Notes databases.

• IT transformation to fuel Williams F1 racing success

  Williams Martini Racing believes an IT transformation can help get its Formula One racers back into pole position, according to the team’s IT manager.

• NSW parliament to ditch Lotus Notes

  The New South Wales legislature will ditch Lotus Notes state budget papers released today reveal. The 2014-15 state budget sets aside $1.8 million over the next year to begin to replace the parliament’s “Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure achieving efficiency and productivity gains”.

• In Pictures: Lotus pioneers. Where are they now?

  IBM kills Lotus name, but software, key players, live on

• Ray Ozzie seeks encore to Lotus Notes, Microsoft triumphs

  Ray Ozzie -- the creator of Lotus Notes who had a successful five-year run at Microsoft -- stands ready to leave his next mark on the industry, this time with his nearly year-old startup Talko (formerly Cocomo), a venture funded by $4 million from investors and shrouded in secrecy.

• Tech Ed 2011: Ausgrid replaces "useless" intranet with SharePoint 2010

  Battling with a virtually useless intranet, Australian energy utility Ausgrid set about finding a platform its users could trust and one that would provide some benefit to the organisation.

• Coca Cola Amatil dumps Lotus Notes for BPOS

  Food and beverage giant Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) has dumped IBM’s Lotus Notes in favour of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Standard Suite(BPOS), in an effort to decrease commercial costs and to integrate collaboration across the company.

• BoysTown achieves the Lotus position - without Exchange

  When Australian youth charity BoysTown was looking at the future of its Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration platform late in 2009, ICT manager Julius Bergh (pictured) knew that the group had to make a decision.

• Tassie govt preps e-mail consolidation project

  Some 30,000 e-mail accounts will be centralised across government departments in Tasmania over the next three years with the big winner being Microsoft Exchange at the expense of Lotus Notes.

• IBM intros Notes apps for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android

  IBM is helping iPhones go corporate this week, with the introduction of a free plug in that allows Notes users to read their encrypted e-mail on the Apple smartphone.

• Google set to take on collaboration giants

  Signaling an intent to compete with giants in the collaboration software space, Google is introducing an API to extend the Google Sites collaborative content development tool, featuring a capability to migrate files from workspace applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Sites.

• Google now targets Lotus Notes users

  Continuing its attempt to lure in enterprise-level users, Google Inc. today unveiled a tool aimed at helping companies migrate from Lotus Notes to Google Apps.

• Lotus Notes/iPhone users to get real-time e-mail access

  IBM/Lotus for the first time will provide users of the iPhone -- and other mobile devices that support ActiveSync -- with real-time access to their e-mail, calendars and contacts.

• IBM claims momentum for Lotus Notes

  Ahead of its annual Lotusphere conference next week, IBM claimed that its Lotus Notes collaboration software is starting to turn the tide against its bigger rival, Microsoft's Exchange.

• IBM to offer virtualised view of Lotus Notes

  IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of the popular Lotus Notes software. The companies claimed that users would be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine.