In a bid to grab more of the E-mail and messaging market it already dominates, Microsoft today is releasing software designed to help users of IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino products more easily connect those applications to its nascent .Net Web-based computing architecture. The software, incidentally, also “helps” users decide whether they would be better off using a Microsoft application in place of a particular Notes or Domino component by monitoring usage patterns.
The software, Microsoft Application Analyzer for Lotus Notes, uses Casahl Technology Inc.'s ecKnowledge 7.5 as a gateway to hook Notes and Domino applications into the XML-based .Net architecture. The software replaces Microsoft's Application Connector for Lotus Notes.
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