Sun Launches Instant Messaging Server

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.

Comments

irc?

[terminal96]

we have a company irc server where i work. works well enough.

Re:What's Wrong with Jabber?

[the uNF cola]

Jabber doesn't integrate with sun's other enterprise utility servers.

The platform, which consists of several separate server packages -- Sun ONE Messaging Server, Sun ONE Instant Messaging, Sun ONE Portal, Sun ONE Calendar Server, and Sun ONE Identity Server -- is available now and takes aim at rivals Microsoft and IBM/Lotus in the lucrative collaboration arena, said David Ferris, analyst with Ferris Research.

It's like wanting jabber to integrate with yahoo mail and yahoo calendar, along with the privacy.

Not to slam jabber at all, just the right tool for the right job, eh? Just one that requirs sun software :)

Real insightful, CowboyNeal

[p3d0]

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.

Yeah, it was the next logical step several years ago. IBM has been using the Sametime IM internally for as long as I have worked there.