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LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns

With the hype announcements around LotusLive I am still surprised to see no changes to the function or UI except the name migrating from BlueHouse.  One thing that I still find interesting is the Sametime IM integration.  Instead of working on a rich web client, they require (not option) that you add the LotusLive Engage community to an existing Sametime Connection 7.5.1 or higher client or download the stand-alone Connect client.  The idea of the cloud side is not to have local items to manage. But here we are installing one.  Make sense? Nope.

If I use LotusLive Engage as my primary community, what policy settings will I get?  What controls are in place?  Who is allowed to modify these for my users?  I cannot even connect to http://im.lotuslive.com via HTTP to get any information.  Plus the page for the client does not specify if I should use the native Sametime port (1533), port 80 or some other variant.  This will make a huge difference on firewalls at numerous client sites.

Hopefully Lotus hears this and adds the feature and functions necessary to do some true cloud work in the IM portion of LotusLive.

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On Thursday, January 29th, 2009   by Chris Miller        

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