Shared Spaces Briefing, Sep 23

Today's highlights: XO Office; Google Wants Partners; Consilient Clients for Nokia;

• CYIOS announced plans to release XO Office ("eXecutive Online Office"), a document, project and collaboration management platform for small and medium-sized businesses, by October 30. A browser-based system, XO Office brings email, projects, teams, meetings, files and notes together in an integrated office system. Available in beta. prnewswire.com



• Google launched Google Enterprise Professional, a formal partner program for solution providers and integrators. Aim is to help organizations open up corporate data stores, including data in Windows SharePoint Services, using Google search appliances. InformationWeek, InfoWorld


• Consilient launched push email clients for the Nokia 9500 and 9300 communicator devices, for connection with Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g. The client uses the open P-IMAP standard. The clients will be available shortly. Consilient

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