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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
BANGALORE: IBM has announced the availability of the new version of Lotus Sametime instant messaging and collaboration software, which will include real-time point-to-point video for expanded communication capabilities. The shipping begins in early second quarter 2007.
This release will also include integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office applications and support for Linux servers and Macintosh clients.
Built on an Eclipse framework, Lotus Sametime is an easily extensible platform, enabling anyone to build and deploy open extensions known as “plug-ins.” With the product’s new integrated video capability and plug-ins developed by telephony and video providers, Lotus Sametime is further validated as a flexible platform for unified communications and collaboration, IBM said in a statement.
The real time video component further extends the flexible collaboration capabilities within the Lotus portfolio, which also includes social software, messaging, email and team collaboration. With a simple Webcam, the new point-to-point video tool will let Lotus Sametime users enhance their instant messaging (IM) discussion or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) conversation in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction.
“IBM's unified communications and collaboration vision is to foster innovation and business agility by making it easier for people to find, reach and collaborate through a unified user experience. Lotus Sametime provides an open, extensible software platform that integrates rich presence, IM, email, unified messaging, Web, voice, video, telephony and business applications across multi-vendor environments,” said Bruce Morse, vice president, Lotus Unified Communications Software.
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