Official Google blog: Chatting with Lotus Sametime

December 7 2006

Google highlights yesterday's IBM announcement...

This means that Google Talk and Lotus Sametime IM users can simply invite one another to chat, bringing together enterprise and personal IM users around the world. If you use Lotus Sametime at the office and have colleagues who use Google Talk, now you can chat with them. Similarly, if you're a Google Talk business user you can now add professional contacts who use Lotus Sametime to your Friends list -- just some of the benefits of interoperability.
I was almost more interested in reading the "links to this post", which included one Microsoft MVP applying the logic that this interoperability is a security/confidentiality issue, and therefore Lotus Sametime users should switch to Office Live Communications Server -- which has been shipping a gateway to AIM, YIM, and MSN Messenger for a while (albeit at an extra charge per-user).

Link: Official Google blog: Chatting with Lotus Sametime >

Other links from yesterday's news:
CRN: IBM raises IM interop stakes with Sametime
Infoworld: Sametime links up with AIM, Google Talk
Intranet Journal: IBM Lotus Sametime embraces public networks

Ed Brill | Chicago, IL USA Category:  Sametime 7.5  Add/View Comments [6]

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  1. 1  George A. P. http://www.sematopia.com | 12/7/2006 8:53:48 AM

    God bless SIP :)

  1. 2  Giuseppe Grasso http://www.dominopoint.it | 12/7/2006 8:53:58 AM

    @ed: truncated link,

    until u fix it:

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  1. 3  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 12/7/2006 8:56:47 AM

    Well the reality is that there is a security/confidentiality risk, but this risk is present no matter what the platform. It is up on individual enterprise to weigh risk vs reward, and make their own decisions. It does not, however, mean that they should run of to another platform. That is just plain stupid reasoning.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/7/2006 8:57:36 AM

    @2 fixed it

  1. 5  Colman Carpenter http://blog.fourlakes.co.uk | 12/7/2006 10:33:48 AM

    Well, if you're going to pay for the extra connectivity then you may as well make *something* happen to justify it. After all, nothing good can come from free software...right?

  1. 6  Mike Gotta http://mikeg.typepad.com/ | 12/7/2006 12:51:49 PM

    Nice to have IBM back in the RTC game aggressively. XMPP is very credible in the consumer, government and educational markets as well as in some enterprise verticals (financial). In my panel on IM and presence at our Catalyst conference, the room was split 1/3 1/3 1/3 across Microsoft, IBM and Jabber (about 90 people as I recall in the US ession and about half that in the European session. XMPP has some interesting capabilities and perhaps will force people to work more diligently on SIMPLE.

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