IBM's Lotus Notes is hitting back at Microsoft Exchange by making it's Lotus chat offering to connect seamlessly with users of AOL IM, Yahoo chat and Google Talk. Of course there is no mention of connectivity to MSN.
IBM’s Lotus division will allow users of its Lotus Sametime messaging system to chat with more than 100m users of public chat networks. IBM claims about 15M instant messaging customers. IBM has faced fierce competition in the business collaboration market from Microsoft, whose Outlook/Exchange software package is a direct competitor with Lotus and now leading in market share.
And it looks like 2006 will finally be the year that IM users will (nearly) all be able to talk with eachother.
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