Shared Spaces Briefing, Jan 17

Yes, I'm back in the saddle for the year. Today's highlights: Domino 7 coming; Stalker CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications 5.0; Kerio MailServer 6.1; ProjectForum/CourseForum 4.1;

• IBM is expected to launch Domino 7 at Lotusphere, featuring support for the DB2 data store, and links to the Worksplace client as Eclipse plug-ins. Release date in 2Q2005. eWeek


• Stalker Software announced that Version 5.0 of CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Communications Server, its email, shared folders and group calendaring server, will support Microsoft Entourage, the email client for the Mac. Available 2Q2005. Stalker


• Kerio announced that Version 6.1 of Kerio MailServer, its email server for Mac OS X environments, will offer Apple iCal support, enhanced Webmail (faster page loads), and improved support for Entourage and Outlook. Kerio


• CourseForum Technologies released Version 4.1 of ProjectForum and CourseForum, its wiki-style group forum software for projects and learning courses. New features: improved forum comments, support for Windows Services, and more. Available immediately for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. CourseForum

This Briefing was written by Michael Sampson, of Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd. Email or IM Michael to discuss any of these items further.

Comments

[Bob Balaban]

I think the Domino 7 exposure at Lotusphere will be well beyond the usual pre-release glimpse (just look at the list of sessions....)

I am hosting (along with colleague Karen Hobert) a hands-on lab to instruct attendees on how to use the new Web Services design component in D7, and also how to generate Web Service clients for it in WebSphere Studio and Visual Studio.net.

The lab will be offered twice on Tuesday the 25th (the session id is HND101).

[Michael Sampson]

Bob, I agree that Domino 7 has already been extensively discussed, and that there is a lot of content in LS05 about it. Instead of the word "launch" that I chose, what would be a better descriptor?