Michael Osterman of Osterman Research asks and answers this question on his blog.

“I believe the answer is no. In many ways, email is more database than communications tool, a repository of unstructured content that you can add to at will simply be sending me an email. If content is unwanted and unusable, such as spam, obviously it should be discarded. However, we all receive content in email that might not need a response right away, or that might be more useful when aggregated with other content.”

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IBM Lotus has published the 3rd and final Beta of the much anticipated Notes /Domino version 8 yesterday (see also Notes gets Nip/Tuck’ed). Although no official release date has been announced so far, the final product will most likely ship in Q3 of this year.

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IBM Lotus released Sametime 7.5.1 last week. I’m not sure how I missed this in the prior release, but I just noticed that Sametime now supports integration with the Microsoft Office suite.

This feature was first mentioned last summer with the pre-announcement of Sametime 7.5 amongst a slew of many other important enhancements to the product, including the gateway to public IM networks.

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Email attachments, specifically the (ab)use of email as a document sharing system is a common concern amongst many companies coping with the constant increase in network traffic and storage demand. Stuart McIntyre on the Quickr blog highlights an interesting approach on how to lighten the email load by providing an intuitive integration point between email client and collaboration solution.

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A number of blogs (Charles Robinson, Philip Storry and Ed Brill) are discussing the challenges of bringing Lotus to the SMB. IBM Lotus Notes/Domino is known for its reliability and scalability which makes it a natural choice for large organization. Until a few years ago Domino was a self-contained platform that was very adaptable to many different business requirements without the need for “twin PhDs in computer science and comparative philology to install“, which made it also a palatable choice for SMBs.

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Mainstream consumer Internet applications are quickly making their way into the enterprise and their intuitive user interfaces and flexible capabilities are setting new standards for more traditional mission critical enterprise apps. IBM is catching on.
This article in the Boston Globe talks about IBM’s efforts to bring consumer Internet technologies such as blogs, wiki’s and social bookmarking/networking to the corporate masses. There has been a lot of interest and excitement about these new products since the official announcements at Lotusphere in January.

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