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IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 3.1, with more than 9 million users, is the market-leading instant messaging and Web conferencing solution for business. Sametime provides presence awareness, instant messaging, and Web conferencing. This paper describes how to leverage the Sun Solaris 9 environment as a stable and scalable platform for Sametime 3.1. tech news

This paper introduces Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) Everyplace, which is an add-on product from IBM that enables mobile devices like mobile phones with microbrowsers or Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) to be part of your Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) community. The topics that are discussed and described in this paper are what is Sametime Everyplace (STEP), how Sametime Everyplace works, infrastructure considerations for STEP, installing Sametime Everyplace, STEP configuration and administration and mobile client options. tech news

Today over half of us work out of the traditional "office" at least part of the time. And most of those who are relatively stationary in a traditional office have to interact with virtual workers in order to get their jobs done. And getting our jobs done is not easy. Every day we have to negotiate a maze of network connections, firewalls, file systems, tools, applications, databases, voicemails, and emails (including the twin devils of Spam and Spam Filters). We spend most of our time trying to find information or reach people, and very little is left to actually do productive work.<br><br>Our organizations are expending a great deal of time, effort, and money trying to make this easier. Many companies try strategies that include portals, extranets, VPNs, and browser-based applications?strategies that at best have been only partially successful (e.g., for workers that can always find a broadband connection and can access the requisite server) and frequently have made life for the virtual team even more complicated and frustrating. What ultimately suffers is organizational productivity and effectiveness, as well as individual efficiency. What is needed in our new virtual workplace is a way to recreate the model of the physical office, where everybody and everything is easily available from anywhere at anytime. Read this White Paper to learn about software solutions that specifically addresses the issues of working in our increasingly virtual world. tech news

Enterprise communications is becoming an increasingly important issue for medium and large enterprises as their workforces evolve. In our webcast, The Future of Enterprise Communications, experts from AVST, Gartner and Verizon Communications will discuss their perspectives on the future of enterprise communications. Some of the things you'll hear include how speech is being deployed in the enterprise and how unified communications and its subset unified messaging can greatly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. tech news

Enterprise IP communications has come a long way and is rapidly gaining mainstream acceptance. This white paper explains today's IP communication trends and how it can benefit your business, including what should be considered during deployment. In addition, real-life scenarios help to highlight benefits and give a real sense of the importance of IP communications in today's world. tech news