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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IBM has published a couple of short flash-based demos of the upcoming Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr products, to their public website. Both products were greeted with much fanfare during the introduction at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, last January.

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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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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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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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