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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. Sametime by ender81b · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sametime is actually a fairly nifty little app. It's got far better integration with notes than - say messenger does with Outlook. The ability to important groups from your address book, open a chat based on an email, schedule a web based conferenced, program bots to interface with a Lotus Notes database, etc is fairly cool.

    The old version always supported an OSCAR gateway, but it's nice to have it "fully" compatible without a whole lotta effort.

  2. Re:Already here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    Because, as nice as those applications are, they require you to have separate accounts. is proposing an IM interopability gateway for Sametime - so you won't need a AIM or Yahoo account to talk to someone on their networks.