Front-page news from '97. (Cole's Corner) (News Briefs)(Editorial)

Now that we have bid adieu to 1997, I thought we should take a minute or two to reflect on the state of publishing systems in the North American newspaper market. Herewith, the stories I thought were the biggest of last year:

Notes as editorial front end. My esteemed colleague Andy Tribute asks the question of whether anyone will want to supply the newspaper industry with an editorial front end, after the work that has been done both at suppliers and at newspapers over the last year with Lotus Notes.

There is no question that the notion of customizing Notes to make it an editorial workgroup product is a good one-in fact, some of the Big Thinkers in the United States in the earlier part of the …