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IBM Brings IM Together

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the working-together-against-corporate-religion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At their Lotusphere conference, IBM announced IM interoperability with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo!, and Google Talk, to be shipped in the next release of its Sametime enterprise IM/web conferencing product in mid-2006." The omission of Microsoft's instant messenger seemed to raise quite a few questions, however.

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  1. Already here by ericdano · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let see, we already have all this with Trillian and Adium. Why do I need IBM doing it?

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    1. Re:Already here by QQoicu2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Uhh, cuz Trillian is hideous. Personally I use gaim ported for WinXP, but GTK+ is pretty buggy with a lot of XP stuff (transparency, et al). I'm more than open to any new multi-network IM clients.

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  2. Re:all I have to say is by un1xl0ser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree.

    IBM should put all of their effort (and donate Sametime specs/source) to the meanwhile project. People could then create GAIM plugins, or just link their custom code to the meanwhile library.

    This is what IBM told me to use when I complained about their lack of a Linux Sametime client @ Linuxworld 2005 (Boston). It was durring their "Linux on the desktop" panel, which was kind of ironic.

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