AOL quits enterprise IM game

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Not the same thing...

This article is talking about the Corporate IM packages sold by AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft. The IM component you are referring to is MSN Messenger, not the corporate offering. They are not the same thing.

All three of these companies have a free version of the public IM that provides access to their public IM domain. Until recently, they all also offered packaged software they allowed a corporation to use IM internally. Many companies need this because government regulation requires that they keep compies of all electronic communication with a customer (i.e. financial institutions). Therefore, the free public IM's would not be of any use to them. This includes the MSN Messenger that is tied to the OS.

All of these companies had to offer a seperate packaged software if they wanted to be in the IM space on a corporate level. Microsoft originally bundled their offering with a version of Exchange 2000. In Exchange 2003 they decided to take it out and make it its own offering, called Live Communication Server.

In short, know what you're talking about before you just blindly go bashing Microsoft or any other company. The facts are, none of them are doing well selling this, but Microsoft has the financial ability to wait it out and let everyone else fold. Plus, Microsoft's newest version brings true "presense computing" to the table. It is more then just an IM offering. It ties into Office 2003 and allows corporations to collaberate on documents from within the document itself. Yahoo and AOL couldn't/didn't do this.

Posted by: dj_45_cal   Posted on: 06/22/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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