================================================= SEARCHDOMINO.COM DAILY NEWS May 16, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid4,00.html ================================================= SPONSORED BY: Network Appliance ================================================= NetApp Filer Performance in the Domino R5 Environment Find out about NetApp's powerful benchmarking performance for the Domino messaging and application platform in an independent report by KMDS. Download this free white paper at www.netapp.com/micro/lotus and receive a mug from Network Appliance as a gift of thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================= LEAD STORY: "New e-mail worm spreads, disguised as virus warning" A new e-mail worm called VBS.Hard.A@mm is on the loose. It shows up in users' in-boxes disguised as a virus alert from Symantec Corp. It propagates through Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail client. It has been rated a low risk for damage but spreads very quickly. SOURCE: IDG News http://computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88-93_STO60596,00.html MORE INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC: General information on Lotus Notes security is availble at this Best Domino Web Links site: http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid4_tax1e9,00.html This searchSecurity article has the latest on last week's Homepage virus: http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid4_gci551792,00.html Get your questions about security answered by searchDomino Security expert Chuck Connell: http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/ateExperts/0,289622,sid4,00.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------- OTHER DOMINO AND INDUSTRY NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] "E-mail system tackles language barriers" [2] "Oracle, Novell, Microsoft enhance mobile e-mail access" [3] "Take that! Linux beats MS in benchmark test" [4] "VimpelCom starts new project with IBM" ~~~~~ [1] "E-mail system tackles language barriers" Gordano GLWebMail, an e-mail system designed to send and receive messages from standard Web browsers anywhere, is offering a client interface in 11 different languages. Users can send e-mail through one central corporate server running GLWebMail and the interface on the client device can be read in the language of the recipient's choice. It costs $500 for up to 50 users. SOURCE: IDG News http://idg.net/ic_537817_1794_9-10000.html [2] "Oracle, Novell, Microsoft enhance mobile e-mail access" Three companies have developed new technology that will finally give workers the ability to access corporate e-mail from a wireless device. Oracle, Novell, Microsoft are set to release products. But with the economic slowdown, the adoption rate for wireless services has been slow going, analysts say. SOURCE: InfoWorld http://nwfusion.com/news/2001/0516mobileemail.html [3] "Take that! Linux beats MS in benchmark test" The Transaction Processing Performance Council released new data from tests that shows that IBM's upcoming DB2 7.2 release running on Linux 2.4.3 outperforms SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 in the 100GB category. IBM said the data should quiet critics who still maintain that DB2 runs only on IBM hardware. Microsoft the tests were not a fair comparison and downplayed the Linux role in the test. SOURCE: eWEEK http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2760874,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 [4] "VimpelCom starts new project with IBM" Vimpel-Communications, Russia's second largest provider of mobile telecommunications services, has signed an agreement with IBM to promote IBM's products for mobile devices based on Domino/Notes mobile applications. SOURCE: StockAccess http://www.stockaccess.com/news/news010514-4.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================================= WEB LINKS OF THE DAY [1] "R.R. Donnelley turns to Lotus Domino to enhance communication and increase organizational effectiveness" This case study examines R.R. Donnelley's use of Domino to provide reliable enterprise-wide messaging, as well as to serve as a robust, flexible platform for a wide range of important applications within its sales groups. SOURCE: Lotus http://www.lotus.com/news/news.nsf/public2/D85B7D0D4E0D2122852569670056C7F9 [2] "Domino pros happy but open to new jobs, survey finds" The results are in for searchDomino's Notes and Domino salary survey. The average salary for all Notes/Domino job titles is $64,021 with Notes developers averaging $61,428 and Domino administrators averaging $60,163. The salary survey also showed little income gap between college graduates and those without college degrees. 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