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IBM Brings IM Together

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 23, 2006 @07:27AM 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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Re:Already here by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-23 07:39 · 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.