Balaji, Sridhar. What is the Single Most Challenging Sarbanes-Oxley Issue Today? Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal. 2004.

Interesting discussion of offshore hosting providers. Insights into liability and jurisdiction and these xSPs being beyond the arm of the SEC. Hmm ...

Twentyman, Jessica. Letting go of email. Infoconomy. 8 Dec. 2004.

Some good info in here. Reference to Gartner estimate of e-mail management costs in large companies around $1,600/user/year. Emphasis placed on achieving efficiency in archival rather than simple brute-force archive-all methodologies. Also mention of the Commercial Litigators' Forum (CLF) that seems heavily engaged in e-discovery.

Lanham, Martin. Will your email archives stand up in court. IT-Analysis.com. 21 Dec. 2004.

Good article on compliance archiving for Exchange.

E-Mail in Clinical Trial Management Survey Reports 70% of a Clinical Research Analysts Working Week is Consumed by E-Mail. PharmaLive. Dec 7, 2004.

Some interesting statistics from a survey of Live Sciences sector workers conducted by The Wren Group ...

Interview with Tom Politowski, President of Waterford Technologies. SocalTech.com. Dec. 9, 2004.

Interview the president of Waterford technologies, the small company that makes MailMeter. 80 employees, now headquartered in Irvine.

[Vendor Press Release]. Intradyn's Email Archiving Appliance for Small SEC-Regulated Firms Adds Audit Capabilities. Yahoo Finance. Dec. 8, 2004.

Yet another appliance-based archival solution. This one from Intradyn.

Another delay for Oracle Collaboration Suite update

Discussion of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g delays ... with mention of new content management offering that will be bundled in OCS.

Find anything, anywhere fast with MSN Toolbar Suite Beta

MSN has finally launched their MSN Toolbar Suite ... will be fascinating to watch the speed of uptake on this.

Enron E-mail Study Shows Liability Nightmare. TechWeb News. Nov. 17, 2004.

TechWeb | Enron E-mail Study | Enron E-mail Study Shows Liability Nightmare

Mozilla Launches Thunderbird E-Mail Client. E-Commerce News. Dec. 8, 2004.

In case you haven't seen this yet. Nice support for RSS.

[Vendor Press Release]. MailFrontier Named Among Leaders in META Group's E-mail Hygiene Vendor Comparison. MarketWire. Dec. 12, 2004.

Mention of "E-Mail Hygiene Vendor Comparison" by META published recently.

Opting for e-mail can break down communication in workplace. Belleville News. Dec. 12, 2004.

According to this, nearly 75% of all workplace e-mail is 'unnecesary'.

Bishop, Tricia. E-mail trips up lawyers / Legal profession struggles with huge amount of data. Baltimore Sun. Dec. 12, 2004.

Interesting article on e-Discovery.

[Vendor Press Release]. Liquid Machines Announces Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0. EContentmag.com

Never heard of these guys before ... looks like a solution that works with Microsoft Windows Rights Mgmt, KVS and presumably Exchange environments.

[Vendor Press Release]. IntelliReach's Chief Technology Officer to Speak at the INBOX Email Event in Atlanta. TMCnet. Nov. 18, 2004.

More about the INBOX event ... this from the former Melia guys.

[Vendor Press Release]. Open Text Announces Email Management Platform, Collaboration Platform, New Artesia Customer. Contentmag.com. Nov. 16, 2004.

Move by Open Text into email management, email archiving, records management & search, etc.

Klug, Foster. Microsoft accused of destroying email. News.com.au. November 19, 2004.

More on Burst vs. Microsoft.

[Vendor Press Release]. First After-Death Email Service in India. Technology News - Onlypunjab.com. Nov. 22, 2004.

OK just had to blog this. I find the 15-day trial bit amusing ...

Neal, David. Why messaging needs controls. IT Week. Nov. 22, 2004.

Largely IM-centric but good article.

Kawamota, Dawn. Microsoft email deletion policy goes to court. CNET News.com on Silocon.com. Nov. 19, 2004.

Will be really interesting to see where this goes. Deleting all email after 30 days is becoming a common strategy.