Sametime has been around a lot longer than Jabber. It was bought by IBM about 5 (?) years back from a company called "Virtual Places" (I think) - another Israeli company like Mirablis. Originally the client was called "VP Buddy" and was renamed to "Sametime Co-worker" when IBM (sort of) integrated it with Notes. It was later renamed to "Sametime Connect" because there was some trademark or copyright dispute with the "co-worker" branding.
Sametime does indeed have a large market share in the markets that IBM chooses to compete (and to conduct their surveys) in. (Very business focused) Something like 60-70% I believe. It seems to integrate pretty well with websites too. Worth reading up on. As a side note, IBM has or had a licence agreement with AOL, because the Sametime Connect clients have been written to log onto AIM servers in parallel with Sametime servers. I'm not sure if this feature still works since AOL keep changing their protocols - I've never been bothered to test it, but it worked initially. Michael. > while sb told me about SIMP (see previous post: "SIMP = open soure > concurrent for Jabber?") another one told me about "Lotus sametime" from > IBM: http://www.lotus.com/products/lotussametime.nsf/wdocs/homepage > > Why didn't they user Jabber for it? They did develop their own Jabber > client didn't they: > http://www.jabbercentral.org/clients/view.php?id=984618555 Or is "Lotus > sametime" actually based on Jabber? And if it is based on Jabber, is it > compatible with it, so that I can chat with "Lotus sametimers"? _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
