Follow-up on IM interoperability in consumer space
I was finally attempting to catch up one
some trade magazines and there was another article on Microsoft, AOL and
Yahoo forming the partnership for LCS 2005 to work with each other. But
here is what caught my eye in the whole thing (Network World Jul 19 2004):
An IBM/Lotus spokesman
says the company is not seeing customer demand for integration with consumer
IM networks. The demand is to integrate IM with business applications.
While I buy that the demand is much
higher to get the presence integrated into applications, I cannot see why
companies would not want this feature. You then centralize and control
versioning and deployed software in the company, while providing the necessary
filtering and monitoring. All through one client that already integrates
into your applications. Plus you can get into namespace mapping to
know exactly who you and your employees are talking to. This paragraph
could on and on, but then why make everyone fuzzy eyed?
Am I missing something here that I would
not want this?
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On Monday, August 23rd, 2004 by Chris Miller
