Lotus Sametime 7.5 announced

January 23 2006

One of this morning's biggest announcements is Lotus Sametime 7.5.  Keys to the announcement:

  • A brand new rich end-user experience
  • Voice over IP and audio/video integration (including with Avaya, Polycom, Nortel, Siemens, Tandberg)
  • Interoperability with major public IM networks included (AOL, Yahoo, Google Talk), with no additional license cost for this interoperability
  • Enterprise to enterprise, protocol to protocol connectivity
  • Support for Windows, Mac, and Linux clients
There's obviously a lot more to the announcement.  You can see some of the enhancements to the UI functionality in these Lotus Sametime 7.5 screenshots.

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  1. 1  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 1/23/2006 8:32:15 AM

    No integration with MSN then?

  1. 2  Egor Margineanu http://www.egmar.ro | 1/23/2006 8:38:03 AM

    WOW.

  1. 3  Jim Moffat www.smith-ivanson.com | 1/23/2006 8:39:04 AM

    And MSN connectivity?

    (holding breath)

  1. 4  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 1/23/2006 8:39:44 AM

    No announcements around MSN connectivity.

  1. 5  Charles Ahart  | 1/23/2006 8:48:46 AM

    How about Sametime for Macintosh. :-)

  1. 6  Chris Miller http://www.IdoNotes.com | 1/23/2006 8:48:52 AM

    AOL and Google made sense since they already partnered as well as iChat. MSN/Hotmail, that was not in the cards I can bet

  1. 7  John Head http://www.johndavidhead.com | 1/23/2006 8:51:03 AM

    full support for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

  1. 8  andrew  | 1/23/2006 8:54:35 AM

    When can I install it on my customer servers ?

  1. 9  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 1/23/2006 8:57:46 AM

    Sametime 7.5 is scheduled for mid-2006 delivery.

  1. 10  Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net | 1/23/2006 9:01:42 AM

    Lack of MSN connectivity is a shame, I can do that on my Symbian based cell-phone.

  1. 11  John  | 1/23/2006 9:29:41 AM

    Any truth to the rumour that IBM's "SkillTap" will be bundled with Sametime 7.5 ??

  1. 12  Mike Brown  | 1/23/2006 10:02:48 AM

    Full Sametime client on the Mac or just the Java one?

    Cheers,

    - Mike

  1. 13  Ken Yee http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf | 1/23/2006 10:05:42 AM

    Kudos to the product management and development teams. Looks great. The re-focusing of this as part of a development environment is also a long time coming and makes a great story for Domino :-)

    Any chance the SameTime server installs on Linux yet? Finally putting my internal Domino server on Linux and would love to run SameTime on it as well...

  1. 14  Richard Smith http://www.basic.co.uk | 1/23/2006 11:24:16 AM

    Looks like a major improvement. Cant wait!

    Im wondering whether Skype might be another client to integrate with, with VOIP and chat?

  1. 15  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 1/23/2006 11:32:36 AM

    @11 components of it...some details are in the press release (which is probably on { Link } )

    @12 full client

    @13 still no plan for a Sametime server on Linux -- please e-mail me customer data on those who are seeking this.

  1. 16  Nathan T. Freeman  | 1/24/2006 1:08:58 AM

    @3 & 10, are you guys being sarcastic!??!?!

  1. 17  Jim Moffat www.smith-ivanson.com | 1/24/2006 4:11:33 AM

    Re 16 and 3 - mois sarcastic?

    Seriously here's a quick and dirty bit of market research on my side of the pond.

    { Link }

    The icons beside each name represent their preferred RTC client. Up to a year ago, MSN dominated, but it looks like Skype has overwhelmed the user population. These people are all SMB's with the emphasis firmly on S, but that's where a lot of early adoption occurs. They are no teenagers here. (Remember, we pay here for local calls, so free VoIP is bound to catch on). In truth, they are probably using both clients for IM and, if they have had the misfortune of graduating to super-node status will be using something else for VoIP. (I'm using a hosted Asterix service and stopped using Skype but that's another story).

  1. 18  Mikkel Heisterberg http://blog.lekkim.heisterberg.dk | 1/24/2006 7:27:44 AM

    I think you forgot to mention one of the best features shown in the demo - a built in screencapture application that allows you to embed screencaptures directly into the chat. I can't recall the number of times I have gone through taking a screenshot and saving it as a file before sending it off via Sametime. Totally cool.

    /lekkim

  1. 19  Nathan T. Freeman  | 1/24/2006 9:09:36 AM

    @17, I think, given the "gloves off" attitude that Lotus is taking towards MS lately, it would be unlikely in the extreme to see an agreement between them about IM. I'm sure I could be proven wrong, but I'm also quite confident that with AIM & Google on board, IBM doesn't feel like they need to crawl in bed with MS on this.

  1. 20  Dave Lehman  | 1/24/2006 9:09:49 AM

    @13 & @15 - Just for the record, I would love to run Sametime server on Linux as well.

  1. 21  Henning Heinz  | 1/24/2006 10:13:31 AM

    Everyone who is running Domino on Linux is probably interested in a Sametime server running on Linux and be it for using the free (as in beer) IM part only. A nasty competitor might conclude that there are no (big) customers running Domino on Linux. I have to admit that it will probably not boost Sametime license revenues.

  1. 22  Tim Bennett  | 1/25/2006 6:47:31 AM

    I would love for Sametime to provide some integration with Parlano's Mindalign product ( { Link } ). I have to use both and also have users with Yahoo, MSN and ICQ loaded!!

  1. 23  Brian Green www.automatedlogic.com/domino | 1/30/2006 10:56:36 AM

    It would also be great if this new Sametime Connect client let the user enable/disable their Out Of Office (OOO) settings.

  1. 24  Jonathan Walkup http://www.thewalkups.net/weblogs/jonsworld.php | 1/30/2006 1:25:09 PM

    The new ST7.5 client is based on Eclipse, and is fully extensible. Adding a little app to change OOO status would be relatively trivial, methinks.