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IBM Lotus Sametime
IBM Lotus Sametime chatwindow
Developer	IBM
Latest release	8.0 / November 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Instant messaging, web conferencing, unified communications
License	Proprietary
Website	www.ibm.com

IBM 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, XMPP, and H.323. Lotus Sametime also integrates with Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office.

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 people to detect which of their contacts are online and available for messaging or conferencing.

Lotus Sametime client software is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh. The Lotus Sametime server runs on Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX, i5/OS, Linux and Solaris.

Lotus Sametime 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 Lotus Sametime Gateway officially supports at the moment. Lotus Sametime is built on the Eclipse platform, allowing developers familiar with the framework to easily write plug-ins for Lotus Sametime.

• Pidgin - A Sametime capable IM client
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• Lotus Sametime Enterprise Instant Messaging and Web conferencing website
• Lotus Sametime Entry
• Lotus Sametime Standard
• Lotus Sametime Documentation
• Extending Sametime 7.5, Building Plug-ins for Sametime -- plug-ins based on Eclipse and OSGi technology
• 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
• IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Web conference service
• IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Collaboration
• IBM Lotus Sametime Campaign designer