Lotus Sametime Advanced 8.0 thingy - my thoughts on the name
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Until Mike Rhodin actually announced the name about the upcoming Sametime changes, it was all hush hush as always. I said this earlier to IBM'ers... do not name them Advanced and whatever (looking back it is Entry).
Advanced means that what you have now is not one of the best corporate instant messaging and web conferencing solutions. It suggests that you have some basic model and there is something better. I think a much better choice would have been Expansion Pack for example. They made this same naming mistake with Basic and Standard in Notes 8. You don't go to market with updated products naming making the older versions inferior to not new functionality, but the core itself.
Sametime Entry takes the IM capabilities already embedded in some IBM products and turns them into a stand-alone offering. The aim is to seed the market and encourage corporate users new to IM to use Entry and later move up to the Standard and Advanced flavors, Morse said
Sametime Advanced builds on the Standard version and adds in features like the ability to share one's desktop with others and ways to store and reuse geographic information. The software also includes persistent chat so that a person can log onto their company's group chat and be able to browse what was discussed earlier, particularly useful in the financial services business where staff in different time zones are continually tracking the markets.
Persistent chat? Carl, didn't you have that a while ago?
Ok, I am done, back to Lotus Connections
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On Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 by Chris Miller
