Today's highlights: Cingular iPAQ hw6500; SDL Acquires TRADOS; Intellisync on 500K; Open Text offers Content Archiving for SharePoint; Messenger 5.0 for the Mac; Open-Xchange Server 5; IBM and Red Hat;
- Cingular Wireless is planning on offering the HP iPAQ hw6500. Cingular offers an EDGE wireless network, which the 6500 supports. Brighthand
- SDL plc., a provider of information management solutions, acquired TRADOS, the globalization and localization software house. SDL will use the TRADOS technology stack to help businesses manage global content across its complete lifecycle. TRADOS
- Intellisync Corporation announced that over 500,000 wireless email users use its software and services to achieve push-based email. Intellisync is second-only to RIM, which has 3 million users. Intellisync's strategic differentiator is its support of multiple devices and multiple platforms. Intellisync
- Open Text introduced Livelink ECM - Document Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint, a content archiving solution for documents in Windows SharePoint Services sites. The offering automatically archives documents from SharePoint, and offers transparent searching capabilities to users. Features include support for multiple storage media, rule-based archiving, and comprehensive search, among others. Open Text
- Microsoft released Version 5.0 of Messenger for the Mac, its instant messaging client for the Apple Mac operating system. New features: tabbed viewing (ability to run consumer and business IM side by side), Live Communications Server 2005 support, and a new look-and-feel. Available immediately. Microsoft
- Xythos Software said that it is seeing increased adoption of its WebDAV-based document management platform by customers running Linux servers. Xythos
- Open-Xchange Inc. released Version 5 of Open-Xchange, its open-source collaboration platform, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. New features: improved Outlook and Palm connectors, Web interface for administrators, and five years of guaranteed maintenance, among others. Available immediately. prnewswire.com
- IBM and Red Hat announced a joint offering of IBM Workplace Services Express 2.5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, available free for a 90 day evaluation. The combined offering will be packaged in a VMware package for download from Red Hat. Available September 1. MarketWire
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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