I missed this IM announcement last week from a 3rd party vendor
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Sametime
holds the lead in enterprise IM, hands down. We all know that. But,
I always get curious at the growth of the smaller proprietary systems.
This was an interesting twist, but not surprising when you sit back and
think about it. A lot of people know MessageLabs as a relay site
for spam filtering and virus control already. So who would turn
over their IM to them also?
MessageLabs, which
claims a customer base of over 12,000 businesses, today announced that
it has plans to acquire Omnipod, a proprietary, closed-network IM vendor.
Omnipod's Professional Online Desktop
(POD) is designed for enterprise use and offers integrated collaboration
features such as persistent chat, global SMS, WebEx online conferencing
and file sharing and transfer capabilities
I can see this as a quick and easy to deploy
solution with gateways, but not proven as scalable yet.
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On Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 by Chris Miller
