Topic: IBM Links Sametime to AIM, Yahoo & Google Talk
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Old 01-23-2006, 07:19 PM
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IBM Links Sametime to AIM, Yahoo & Google Talk
At Lotusphere this week, IBM announced a midyear upgrade to their Lotus Sametime instant messenger that will provide interoperability with AIM, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. Lotus Sametime 7.5 will also include a mainstay of the consumer instant messaging market: emoticons or "smileys."

IBM is also planning to incorporate "click-to-call" web-based voice calls through deals with Avaya, Nortel, Polycom, Premiere Global Services, Siemens AG and Tandberg ASA.

Conspicuously absent from this list was Microsoft, who markets a competing enterprise product. Unlike Microsoft, whose Live Communications Server offers connectivity to Yahoo! and AIM for a price, Lotus Sametime connectivity will be included at no additional cost.

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