IBM announced this morning the official availability dates for its highly anticipated next version of Notes/Domino. This is truly a miles stone release for IBM that has been years in the making. See also my previous blog posts on this topic:

Notes gets Nip/Tuck’ed

Big Blue is getting some respect

Notes/Domino 8 is hitting the homestretch

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IBM and Novell announced at this week’s LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco that they will partner to offer IBM’s open collaboration client on SUSE Linux Enterprise desktop.

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Today is the day that many gadget junkies have been waiting for - Apple’s iPhone is finally going on sale at AT&T wireless stores around the country. Much has been written and reported about its cool features and it will be interesting to see if the fever pitch media hype leading-up to its release can live up to the expectations and real world demands of the common cell phone user.

For many companies currently supporting corporate mobile email through services such as RIM’s Blackberry BES, Microsoft Mobile ActiveSync or Good Technology from Motorola a far different question arises: How will they support the iPhone on their existing infrastructure and what possible security risks does the device pose in the corporate context?

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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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Gartner is joining other analysts, such as Forrester, in predicting that Enterprise Instant Messaging is quickly becoming a mission critical business application.

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In previous posts,  I have discussed how IBM Lotus is preparing a number of exciting new products that will bring proven consumer web 2.0 collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs and social bookmarking to the enterprise.

This week IBM started an aggressive marketing campaign coinciding with the announcement of the official product launch dates that confirms Big Blue’s commitment to build on the strong collaboration foundation of Notes.

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