Today's highlights: Verizon Wireless and Good Technology; Microsoft on Exchange Roadmap; Mozilla Lightning; Glenn Reid on Client Software; Open-Xchange 5 Roadmap;
- Good Technology announced a partnership with Verizon Wireless for the delivery of the GoodLink wireless email and data access service. Verizon will initially offer the Good service for customers with Microsoft Exchange Server and Treo 600 devices. Available immediately. Good Technology
- Microsoft announced an update on its roadmap for Exchange. (So, I was wrong ... Microsoft does need a roadmap for it). Key takeaways: (1) Edge Services will take on a broader role beyond security and anti-spam, and will include messaging policy capabilities for regulatory compliance purposes; (2) there is a future version of Exchange Server coming, probably in 2006; and (3) Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2003, due 2H2005, will include the SenderID framework, for email authentication. Microsoft Exchange Team Blog. See Barbara Darrow's blog entry, and Directions on Microsoft about why Microsoft needs a roadmap for Exchange.
- The Mozilla Foundation is working on Lightning, an integrated email and calendaring client that combines its Thunderbird email application with its Sunbird calendar application. Desired capabilities: the ability to search across email documents and calendar entries, and be able to turn an email message into a calendar task or reminder. Target release is mid-2005. ZDNet
- Glenn Reid, CEO of Five Across, writes about the importance of rich client software for communication and collaboration applications. Earlier this year, Five Across released InterComm, a workgroup IM and file sharing tool for enterprises. Glenn Reid of Five Across
- Netline Internet Service released details of Open-Xchange 5, the next release of its open source messaging server. Planned capabilities: web-based administration interfaces, enhanced Outlook and Palm connectors, and 5 years guaranteed maintenance, among others. Scheduled for release in March 2005. prnewswire.com
This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.
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