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June 26, 2006 9:11 AM PDT
IBM ties Sametime IM to Office
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Sametime 7.5, which will be available in about two months, will allow people to use instant-messaging features without having to leave Office applications. For example, a person could open up an e-mail inside Outlook and find out whether the sender is available on Sametime and where he or she is located.
Big Blue also said it will offer Sametime, which is aimed at corporate customers, on mobile devices from Research In Motion and Nokia, and on those that use Windows Mobile. The new version can automatically figure out a user's location based on an Internet Protocol address, IBM said.
The strategy behind the changes is to make Sametime more extensible, said Ken Bisconti, vice president of workplace, portal and collaboration products at Big Blue.
IBM has rewritten Sametime to run on the Eclipse Rich Client framework, open-source software for running desktop components. This means that the instant-messaging application can host Eclipse-compatible programs, Bisconti noted.
For example, a person could chat with a colleague whose location would be shown on Google Maps. Or people could display bookmarked Web sites from Delicious on Sametime, Bisconti said.
"This allows any Eclipse developer to build plug-ins and other extensions, so it's not just an end-user product but also a platform for a whole ecosystem of real-time applications," he said.
The same Eclipse framework will be used in the "Hannover" release of Lotus Notes, which is due in the spring of 2007, Bisconti added.
Bisconti noted that the Sametime integration with Microsoft Office will apply to Office 2000, Office XP and the forthcoming Office 2007.
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The article states in part:
"Federally owned Banco do Brasil has completed the migration of all its Windows XP computers to the OpenOffice.org open source suite, reported local tech service Computerworld.
The migration involved 35,000 PCs, and Banco do Brasil now aims to migrate another 30,000 computers that use the OS/2 operating system. These should all migrate to the OpenOffice.org system by year-end.
Brazil was one of the first countries in the region to adopt a policy of migration to open source at the government level, prompting multinationals to increase development in this area.
One such case is IBM (NYSE: IBM), which installed a Linux Technology Center in Brazil and recently invested US$2.2mn to expand the center, at its Campinas and Hortolndia sites in So Paulo state. The investment will cover new equipment and hiring of extra developers, with a view to boosting the center's activities."