<A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/25682.html">The Register</A> has an article on how mobile middleware vendor Extended Systems Inc appears to have been dumped by IBM Corp in the latest release of its Lotus Domino groupware and application platform. According to the article, Extended has previously been favored by IBM as a provider of mobile device to desktop synchronization software, but now it appears that IBM is favoring its own synchronization software based on the evolving SyncML standard.