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Similar to this blog, the newsletter is covering various topics about corporate messaging infrastructures while also providing specific insights and advice on how to handle some of the challenges in managing today’s mission-critical email, IM and collaboration systems.

For subscribers, we will also include in every newsletter a different, free product or service offering to help cope with tough economic times.

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Another year has passed and Lotusphere ’09 is upon us.  Lots of announcements from Lotus in yesterdays key note, well covered through various live-blogs and twitter feeds, listed here.

Permessa is proudly showing-off its LotusAward and announcing a number of new things as well, including:

• A ROI calculator that shows ways how to cut down Notes/Domino messaging costs by up to 40%.
• A free Sametime license auditing tool that enables companies to quickly assess how many active users are connecting to Sametime services and what client revisions are being used.

If you happen to be a Lotusphere, please see us at Booth #308.

Technorati Tags: LS09, Lotusphere 2009

A few days old, but noteworthy: In an interesting twist, IBM announced the availability of the latest version of Notes/Domino at Macworld, only two weeks ahead of Lotusphere – IBM’s own product showcase held annually in Orlando.

I think, this signals two things:

1. IBM acknowledges the growing popularity of the Mac, and its increasing usage worldwide. Macworld in particular is a great venue to connect with real end-users, many of which may not even know that Notes still exists. The success of MS-Exchange has been largely driven by the ubiquitous nature of Outlook, and IBM must rebuild end-user awareness and street-cred to regain market share.
2. Lotus is hoping to leverage years of heavy investment in Eclipse, which gives Notes instant cross-platform capabilities and feature parity on non-Wintel systems, including the Mac and of course Linux.

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The last couple of months have been unusually quiet with only a few posts here.  I have been very busy at Permessa, as the whole company has been feverishly working on new product releases, beta programs and other exciting initiatives that we are planning for 2009.

As a nice holiday present, our hard work has been recognized and rewarded in form of the prestigious Lotus Awards.

Permessa Email Control! won the 2009 Best of Lotus Award for Best Tool and Utility while Permessa IM Control! was named a finalist for 2009 Best of Lotus Award for Best Unified Communications Solution.

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IBM released last week a new data migration tool intended to ease the movement of large amounts of data from existing content platforms such as SharePoint, Exchange Public Folders, Domino Document Libraries and other repositories (see coverage here, here and here). The tool also provides synchronization capabilities to enable platform coexistence during extended migration periods.

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Another chapter in the saga surrounding millions of missing White House emails was written this week, when judge John Facciola ordered the Bush administration to collect and preserve all emails stored in .pst files including data copied onto portable media such as flash drives.

While there are many theories about the missing emails, reaching from government conspiracy to sheer incompetence, I would side with the latter.

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