IMs Play Together with IBM’s Lotus Sametime
IBM’s Lotus division experienced a surge in growth in 2005. To capitalize on it, the company’s releasing a new version of Lotus Sametime, their real-time business IM application. Along with the new Sametime 7.5, IBM has announced partnerships with AOL, Yahoo, and Google that will allow IBM’s 15 million Sametime business users communicate with consumer-level IM clients including AIM, ICQ, Apple iChat, Yahoo Messenger, and Google Talk. Users will be able to exchange messages and view their contacts.
“Real-time technology has helped flatten the world by eliminating time and space barriers between people. This has profoundly changed how we all do business,” said IBM’s Michael Rhodin, general manager of Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software in a recent statement.
Interoperability will be based on what is called the Simple Initiation Protocol (SIP), a unified instant messaging standard, and require only one log-in name. In addition to IM cross-communication, IBM plans to add more than 100 other features, including a redesigned web conferencing interface, social networking capabilities, and integrated audio and video through partnerships with business communication leaders Avaya, Nortel, Polycom, Premiere Global Services, Siemens, and Tandberg.
The new additions will enable an effective “click-to-call” system that can connect customers through voice to an IM contact via a single click. IBM said that Sametime 7.5 should be available by the middle of 2006.
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