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Michael Sampson

Daily Report, Mar 12

Team Collaboration Notes and Domino 8 Beta … The public beta of Notes and Domino 8 is available. “There’s a lot to check out about the beta. Developers are going to want to dig into the composite applications model. Admins are going to be excited about provisioning. End-users […]

Daily Report, Mar 10

Team Collaboration WorkSmart.net Does Tasks … Designlinks released an updated edition of WorkSmart.net, its hosted collaboration service, with new task management capabilities such as to-do lists, trouble ticket management, and task-based time tracking. Available immediately. WorkSmart.net Online Meeting Scheduling … Looking for a way to schedule meetings without […]

When "Free" Is Too Expensive, Mar 8

Chan’s post of a few days ago got me thinking again about the topic of “free software”. I’ve been meaning to write on this for quite some time, but my recent employment gig put that on ice (given the “for free” orientation of said employer). Now that I’m […]

Daily Report, Mar 8

Cisco and IBM … Cisco and IBM announced a partnership for the integration of their respective wares to deliver a unified communications and collaboration solution to joint customers. “At the core of the unified communications and collaboration (UC2) Client Platform will be an open set of application programming […]

Daily Report, Mar 7

Team Collaboration Cisco Unified Communications 6.0 … Cisco released Version 6.0 of its Unified Communications offering that combines voice, video and data communications. Key capabilities: Mobile Communicator software for devices, a wireless IP phone, web conferencing through MeetingPlace 6.0, and Cisco Unity 5.0 for voice mail. “The system […]

Daily Report, Mar 6

Team Collaboration Update on Microsoft Office Live … Update from Microsoft on its Office Live initiative: (1) it has about 100 partners now, compared to 4 when it launched 15 months ago; (2) there are about 300,000 subscribers across the world; (3) Office Live needs a hosted bill […]

Doing anything with Email Policy Engines?

I’m doing my research for an article for an upcoming edition of the Messaging News magazine on email policy engines. The focus is on how to make policy engines work for business, and my article is a follow-up to the earlier article in Messaging News (Nov/Dec 2006) that […]

Daily Report, Mar 5

Team Collaboration Open-Xchange and 1&1 Internet … Open-Xchange announced a partnership with 1&1 Internet, for the offering of a fully hosted edition of Open-Xchange’s email and collaboration solution. “Under the terms of the partnership, 1&1 will offer a range of 1&1 branded email and collaboration services on the […]