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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Here is another take on “making email boring”- how corporate America is trying to deal with email overload. Some of you may have seen this story on ABC last Saturday.

U.S. Cellular CEO Jay Ellison is banning email on Fridays. Ironically, Ellison announced the measure in an email to all 5,500 employees:

“Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. … I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.”

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The long awaited next version of Lotus Notes previously dubbed “Hannover” now Notes 8 went into public beta in the middle of March. This is an important milestone for IBM as there has been a continued buildup of excitement and high expectations in the market for this new release. Besides the technology bells and whistles of eclipse and the composite application framework, the redesign of the user interface is what makes this release truly significant.

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Very interesting take on the enterprise email market by Scalix CEO, Glenn Winokur. Glenn responds to a recent blog entry by Mary Jo Foley in reference to an upcoming Yankee Group report. While the original post was debating the open source threat to Exchange, Glenn didn’t pull any punches and quickly added Notes as an even more vulnerable target. And that’s when things started to get really interesting, with Ed Brill and others chiming in. Great discussion worth reading.

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