Michael F Lin wrote: > > Disclaimer: I'm not on the Sametime team and in no way speak in any > official capacity whatsoever about it. Please do not quote me on > anything in this e-mail, lest you get me into trouble. > > I've heard around the office that Lotus Sametime controls about 60% of > the corporate desktop instant messaging market (the same market that > Jabber, Inc. plays in). From what I understand, it's managing to do > well against other offerings at least partly because of its encryption > and server-side logging facilities, which are mission-critical for IT > departments in the financial sector, for example. (Server-side logging > seems unsavory to us in the open-source community, but it's a legal > requirement for many enterprises) > > Also note that Sametime is not just instant messaging and presence (or > "awareness" as it is called), but it is also an entire e-meeting > platform with audio/video conferencing, whiteboarding, etc. > > Sametime 3 and up is moving to a SIP-based protocol.
I just came back from an academic IS/IT conference in Dallas, where one presentation was on VoIP and Video Conf. using SIP for session initiation, as opposed to H.323. The speaker had a good side-by-side comparison of the two, and pointed that the "bellheads" seem to like H.323, while the "netheads" like SIP. He also pointed out that SIP appears to be the protocol of choice. SIP/Jabber interoperability or discovery and session initiaiton via SIP in the Jabber environment is definitely worth looking into. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Asst. Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
