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Sun Launches Instant Messaging Server

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the network-is-the-messenger dept.

theIG writes "According to this article at geek.com, and another one at InternetWeek, Sun has shipped the first part of its new enterprise collaboration platform to compete with Exchange and Domino. Dubbed 'Sun ONE Instant Messaging 6.0,' this server will work with other products to be released in May, to allow a single login for all of its services that allow connections from outside a corporate firewall." Instant messaging is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace. Local messaging servers like this were only the next logical step for businesses which don't wish to rely on an outside network for their messaging.

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  1. Re:irc? by Eric+P.+Henus · · Score: 1, Funny

    @find *spice*girls*bootleg

  2. FFS! SUN needs to get with the Program!.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Dubbed 'Sun ONE Instant Messaging 6.0,'
    That is _so_ 90's!! They should have called it Sun ONE Instant Messaging XP or MX or something..
    This way they'll never get JoeSixpack to buy a single server!.. Come on!..
    1. Re:FFS! SUN needs to get with the Program!.. by slashd'oh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't you mean joesiXPack? That's the new title for our sysadmin who buys all of our servers.

      Or was it JoePack 6.0? Hmm...

  3. Re:Real insightful, CowboyNeal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I checked out this loser's website - he doesn't work at IBM, he works at Pizza Hut!

  4. Future Sun Commercial by bahwi · · Score: 1, Funny

    Picture an employee at his desk. His AIM pop's up:

    TheBoss: How did our trade secrets get out? I'm calling for a full investigation!

    Employee: Maybe it's because we use AOL for our chat and they receive everything we send!

    TheBoss: What? Quick! Get a Sun ONE Server!

  5. Thank goodness. by FreeLinux · · Score: 1, Funny

    We were really lacking in the instant messaging server department. No if they would only come out with an MP3 player, they'd take over the world.

  6. this is a lie by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: 1, Funny

    The website does not exist. It has been destroyed by the grace of Allah and the infidels who created it were chased away to their deaths by the mighty Iraqi Army.

    --
    Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  7. FINALLY! by Big+Nothing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another IM service is just what I've been missing!

    --
    SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
  8. Whoopity do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...And it will be called YAPPOSIMS
    or Yet Another Proprietary Piece of Sh*t Instant Messaging Standard