A report from analysts at the Radicati Group says that Microsoft Exchange maintains a strong lead in the enterprise messaging software market, with a 32 percent installed base, followed by Lotus Notes and Domino, with 25 percent of the market.

Microsoft welcomed Computer Associates, Sybari Software and Symantec as members of the Virus Information Alliance (VIA), a centralized resource for Internet users seeking information about the latest virus threats affecting Microsoft technology. Established with members Microsoft, Network Associates and Trend Micro, the VIA offers recommended best practices for preventing malicious attacks, information about specific viruses, how-to articles and links to other antivirus resources on its Web site.

Pumatech said it has acquired the assets of Loudfire, Inc. According to InternetNews.com, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Loudfire makes the LoudPC platform. The software lets anyone with an Internet browser or Web-enabled phone real-time access to email and personal information management data located in either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.

InfoWorld reports that Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions announced its new Pylon family of products, which extend Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange environments to mobile devices using wired, public wireless and Wi-Fi networks. Pylon Anywhere combines iAnywhere’s Mail Anywhere software with another package, Pylon PIM, developed by AvantGo. AvantGo was acquired by Sybase in February 2003.

We’ve long been aware of a fine software publisher, Casady & Greene. They’ve been in business for 19 years, originally as an independent Mac publisher and more recently a provider of Windows software. Sadly, the company is closing down. We’re posting this to tell the C&G folks that they’ll be missed and that they should be proud of the fine work they’ve done over all these years. Nicely done, folks. Sorry to see you go.

This article from Business Week takes a look at challenge-response email filtering systems. The author says that these systems are likely to delete the emails you want along with the emails you don’t want.

iManage announced the availability of its comprehensive Email Management solution. This solution combines the WorkSite Communication Server with enhancements in MailSite and other Worksite applications to allow companies to deal with email overload. The iManage Email Management solution allows inbound and outbound emails to be directly captured and classified in the iManage content repository alongside documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other relevant business content.

Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Exchange Server 2003, the next edition of its messaging server. Exchange 2003 will be available in two editions: Standard and Enterprise. Standard Edition is a solution for small to medium-sized organizations as well as branch offices of larger enterprises; Enterprise Edition meets the needs of larger organizations with more-complex deployments and scalability requirements. You can order a 120-day evaluation kit and sign up for an Outlook Web Access demonstration account.

For those of you curious about why you couldn’t place orders in the ZATZ Online Store, we’re done with the next round of upgrades and the store’s back online. Go forth and buy stuff.

It looks like most of the new rendering code is now working (yay!) although there are still some bugs we’re hunting down. For example, even though we’re running July’s content, the home pages of the magazines still insist we’re displaying the June issues. Weird, but it’ll be fixed shortly. As Hannibal Smith once said, "I love it when a plan comes together."