The Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church has decided to cut the Microsoft umbilical cord by moving to open source, starting with Office which will be replaced in the next three years.
IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office.
The White House is accused of destroying key government records by losing e-mails written by the President and key advisers such as Karl Rove between 2002 and 2005.
Google today began marketing new online tools for protecting e-mail from spam and other problems as it continued to encroach on the terrain of software king Microsoft.
Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be winging its way to users via Microsoft auto update from next month.
Most people agree that IBM's Lotus Notes product is one of the most advanced and popular collaboration suites out there.
You don't have to wander very far in the blogosphere before you'll find someone slagging off Domino, aka Lotus Notes.
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology, which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.
Accountancy group PKF Australia has started migrating its 800 or so users from IBM's Lotus Notes collaboration platform to rival Microsoft's Exchange infrastructure.
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In version 8 of IBM/Lotus's upcoming collaboration suite, the client (Notes) moves to a new Java framework while the server (Domino) gets a number of overdue enhancements.
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IBM last week launched a public beta of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 e-mail and collaboration software.
Upgrading to latest version of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise can lock Lotus Notes users out of their e-mail. McAfee is investigating.
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