IBM/Lotus, Microsoft see 'unified' differently

摘要

IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders. The plan is to marry collaboration, social networking, conferencing and messaging software, which feature open protocols and interfaces, with telephony wares from partners such as Cisco, Nortel and Avaya to create a UC platform that corporations can integrate with their infrastructure and Web services projects. Integration and standards support are hallmarks of the platform that features voice, e-mail, instant messaging, presence and videoconferencing.