Galdon released GFX 3.0 which is their latest fax archiving and billing solutionf for RightFax—Fax server product.

The predecessor of GFX 3.0 is version 2.7 for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. The older version shall be supported for customers who have not yet upgraded to the latest version of SharePoint.

GFX is a great product that allows management of fax documents for both inbound and outbound. These documents are then archived and posted in SharePoint.

Mainsoft has released their SharePoint integrator for Lotus Notes which is an add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8 that allow users to access SharePoint content (documents, worksheets, presentations) from within Notes.

Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, has this to say: Today, many organizations rely on Windows SharePoint Services for basic document management and team collaboration because it is simple to deploy and easy to use through Microsoft Office. With Mainsoft, IBM customers can give Notes users direct access to SharePoint content within Notes, without engaging in an expensive rip-and-replace strategy.

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page lost $8.5 billion from their November net worth of $21 billion when their Google stock is at its peak. Amidst declining revenue and their stock trading below $500, Google stock has lost 2 percent dropping the value to $450.78 from its previous $460.56

Both founders has received a 2007 annual salary of $1 and a bonus amounting to $1,723. Sergey and Larry may rethink their $1,724 total salary as their stocks continue to decline.

There is buzz that Red Hat and Alfresco Collaboration Solution for SMBs is the SharePoint killer.

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There is a lot of buzz on the 2 million sales generated by Apple on their Leopard release and there isn’t a lot of positive notes when Microsoft sold 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month, 40 million copies in the first 100 days, 60 million copies in July and now 88 million copies.

It is funny how a lot of reports says that Microsoft sales is declining, its incompatability issues have made people wary of upgrading or buying Windows Vista and so on and so forth. Now, with only a pathetic 2 million Leopard sales, media is saying that it is going to outsell Windows Vista with a staggering margin?

Nick White, product manager of Windows Vista, reported that they have already released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta version to a select group of beta testers. It is still a small and private release to a fraction of the confirmed 1,500 beta testers of the new operating system; however, this still doesn’t change the fact that the service pack is nearing it’s release date.

Nick White has his report here.

JCXSoftware released VS.PHP 2.3 which works with Windows Vista. Major features of this release is the capability to work on remote files with local interface and user experience. Creation, edit and deletion of files are done with ease.

I like intellisense features on this release; but other than using Visual Studio as a local file editor, I don’t see a great value in the usage of Visual Studio engine for programming in PHP.

My colleague approached me yesterday and told me to download Safari because of its beauty, better than Internet Explorer 7. I quickly asked him the level of security the browser has, which rendered him silent.

Microsoft is not going to buy Yahoo but reports indicating that the two giants are in talks of a possible buyout is not an act to generate buzz among themselves; but a legitimate win it all vision for both of them. Microsoft is behind Google and their barrage of online services from MSN to Live have not closed the gap between these two companies; buying an established company like Yahoo should be no brainer as it could instantly keep them within striking distance of Google.

The buyout is not going to happen

Microsoft sends out a message to IBM every year during their annual Lotusphere customer conference that they are aiming for its demise by giving out free tools that target IBM’s products. This year Microsoft launches their tool named Transporter which aims to ease the migration from Notes/Domino to Microsoft’s software suite which is going to be available for free in the next month or so.