Lotus, AOL Team on IM Client Integration
IBM's Lotus Software division and America Online Inc. announced Monday an agreement to conduct pilot testing of more extensive interoperability between the companies' respective instant messaging clients.
Lotus's Sametime IM client and AOL's AOL Instant Messenger, known as AIM, can communicate with each other today, with Sametime users able to access their AIM Buddy List features through a tab on the Sametime contact list.
The pilot testing would integrate Sametime with the AIM Enterprise Gateway and the full suite of Enterprise AIM Services, allowing Sametime enterprise customers who use the AIM Enterprise Gateway to manage control of AIM usage in their organizations. Sametime is Lotus' secure IM and online meetings platform designed for enterprise customers. AIM is AOL's consumer IM service and handles more than 1.5 billion instant messages per day, though the pilot will focus on the enterprise capabilities added to AIM in November.
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