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January, 2005



MIT held its 2005 Spam Conference last week. Some interesting talks, with new ideas. Some mad-sounding, academic ideas that would never work in the real world. Unfortunately some boring, unoriginal, or marketing-driven ones too.

Some interesting trivia:

Continue reading ‘Trivia from the MIT Spam Conference’

Symantec announced version 4.0 of Symantec Network Security, its network intrusion detection software solution. Key enhancements: multiple detection technologies, central management along with Symantec Network Security 7100 Series through the Symantec Network Security Management Console, and analysis and correlation engine, among others. Available immediately. More

VERITAS Software released results for 4Q2004, ended December 31. Revenue increased 14% to $574 million with a GAAP net income of $129 million. More

Last year at Lotusphere in Orlando, Florida, IBM executives spent a lot of time discussing Lotus Workplace and the future of Notes/Domino.  The message at this time was not as clear as it could have been.  Many customers were feeling that they had to migrate towards Lotus Workplace sooner or later.

This year this key message was updated and refined. One important change was the re-branding of Lotus Workplace to become IBM Workplace. This underscores IBM’s vision that Workplace is three things:

  • A new technology based on the J2EE framework
  • Aimed at providing portal environments to vertical industry segments rather than just"unserved" messaging users
  • Lastly, (and most importantly…) is not positioned to replace existing or new Lotus Notes and Domino installations

Continue reading ‘The Notes Roadmap – Additional Perspective’

Computer Associates released results for 3Q2005, ended December 31. Revenue increased 9% to $911 million with net income of $36 million. More

Postini published its Annual Email Security Report. Key findings: smaller companies received up to 10 times more spam per user than large businesses, certain industries received more than 10 times the amount of spam per user per day, and the average company experienced 150 directory harvest attacks per day, among others. Available immediately. More

A major announcement at this week’s Lotusphere conference is IBM’s Workplace Services Express – known as WSE for short.  WSE integrates capabilities such as document management, team workspaces and instant messaging/presence awareness into a single collaboration platform.  It is targeted primarily at small and medium-sized businesses and positioned directly against Microsoft’s Windows Sharepoint Services.  There is at least one important difference in the approach IBM is taking however – and that is that WSE is designed to create workspaces that are based on roles although it supports ad-hoc use as well. 

Continue reading ‘Workplace Services Express – Are we ready for role-based workspaces?’

Yesterday at Lotusphere in Orlando, Florida, IBM executives spent a lot of time discussing the future of Notes/Domino and Workplace.  A demonstration was given of both the forthcoming Notes 7 client, and what is now officially known as Workplace Client Technology (WCT).  Unmodified Notes client applications were shown running inside of the Workplace Client.  A new component-based application development tool called Workplace Designer was unveiled, that promises to make it almost effortless for skilled Domino developers to create Workplace applications.

What does all this mean?

Continue reading ‘The Notes Roadmap – IBM’s strategy is crystal clear’

EMC released results for 4Q2004, ended December 31. Revenue increased 27% to $2.36 billion with net income of $321 million. More

Symantec announced the Symantec Mail Security 8100 Series, its anti-spam appliance. Key features: controls the flow of email based on the sender’s actual behavior as well as reputation data, shapes traffic at the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol level prohibiting spammers from forcing mail into a protected network, and provides automated reputation and statistics downloads, [...]

iLumin Software Services announced Assentor Mailbox Manager for Notes, its email archiving and retention management solution for Lotus Notes. Key features: enforce multiple message archive rules, based on age, size, attachment type and folder; archive email to meet individual mailbox quota; and automate retrieval of email stubs from inboxes; among others. More

DYS Analytics announced CONTROL! Standard Edition, its messaging management solution small- to medium- sized businesses. Provides monitoring, analysis, alerting and reporting capabilities for Lotus Domino, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, and IBM Team Workplace. More

Symantec announced Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series, its secure email gateway appliance. Key features: Brightmail AntiSpam and Symantec AntiVirus integration, volume management, and attack prevention, among others. Available February, 2005. More

McAfee announced key findings from the Secure Content Management (SCM) survey of global enterprises. Survey findings: the vast majority of enterprise organizations believe that they have an obligation to protect and prevent employees from being exposed to offensive content via email, under one third of all enterprise businesses use a single vendor solution for messaging [...]

This Bulletin covers the key announcements made at the Microsoft IT Forum 2004, as well as the trends and technologies highlighted by keynote speakers.