IBM Brings IM Together 47
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.
Sametime (Score:5, Informative)
The old version always supported an OSCAR gateway, but it's nice to have it "fully" compatible without a whole lotta effort.
Re:Already here (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Already here (Score:2, Informative)
A much better solution is Jabber with transports. My AIM and MSN settings and buddylists are saved on the Jabber server, and all I have to do is login to my Jabber account. Considering the multitude of Jabber clients available (open protocol for the win!), this is a much easier system for those of us who regularly use computers in more than one location.
wrong (Score:2, Informative)
Re:all I have to say is (Score:2, Informative)