IBM LOTUS SAMETIME

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'Lotus Sametime' is an enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing application sold by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus Sametime provides enterprise instant messaging functionality, presence information, and web conferencing. It offers strong support for communications standards and standard protocols, including Session Initiation Protocol, SIMPLE, T.120 and H.323. Lotus Sametime also integrates with Lotus Notes.
The product was originally the synthesis of technologies IBM acquired from two companies: the first, an American company called Databeam, provided the architecture to host T.120 dataconferencing (for web messaging) and H.323 Multi-Media Conferencing; the second was Ubique, an Israeli company whose software technology provided the "presence awareness" functionality that allows users to detect which of their peers are online and available for conferencing.
Lotus Sametime client software is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. The Lotus Sametime server runs on Windows, IBM AIX, i5/OS, Linux and Solaris.
Lotus Sametime 7.5.x is described in detail on the IBM product homepage. One of the new features is Lotus Sametime Gateway, which adds support for communication with users of AOL, Yahoo and Google Talk. Because Google Talk uses the XMPP protocol, Sametime can interact with XMPP tools such as Jabber. However, Google Talk is the only XMPP system that the Sametime Gateway officially supports at the moment. This 7.5.x release also introduces the Eclipse platform as the base for Sametime, allowing developers familiar with the framework to easily write plug-ins for Sametime.
With Lotus Sametime 7.5, IBM has introduced chat archiving. This was one area where Sametime was found lacking in the previous versions. Zap Notes & Notes Buddy will continue to provide interfaces to the new version, but with archiving Sametime has almost equalled its plug-ins.

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★ Pidgin - A Sametime capable IM client

External links

★ IBM Lotus Sametime Enterprise Instant Messaging website

★ Lotus Sametime Product Documentation

★ IBM Lotus Sametime Information Center

★ Extending Sametime 7.5, Building Plug-ins for Sametime -- plug-ins based on Eclipse and OSGi technology

★ IBM Lotus Software website

★ Lotus Sametime Gateway website

★ IBM Lotus Sametime for i5/OS

★ Sametime Plug-in for Trillian

★ Meanwhile Project Sametime-compatible library licensed under the LGPL

★ [1] Sametime plugin for Miranda IM (on working)

★ IBM Lotus Sametime Connect Plug-in Developer articles