Microsoft pushes IM standard
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft earlier this month debuted the long-awaited beta of its real-time communications server along with a strategy designed to make it an emerging standard for embedding instant messaging and presence detection in other applications.
The software, code-named Greenwich, is being positioned as a counterweight to the Sametime IM and presence server from IBM's Lotus Software division, the acknowledged leader in enterprise IM. But while Lotus is enabling developers to put Sametime into other applications as Web services, Microsoft said developers will connect Greenwich to other applications via APIs.