Founding members include IBM, Novell, Oracle, Data Connection Limited, Lotus Development and Isocor. As an initial step, members of the forum have verified that current LDAP-enabled applications interoperate with IBM SecureWay Directory, Novell...
At its Lotusphere conference last month, IBM said the first Lotus product that will be rewritten for WebSphere is a lightweight email application called IBM Lotus WorkPlace Messaging. Each of the reworked Lotus products will use the WorkPlace...
As IM popularity begins to grow in the workplace, many enterprise software companies such as Sun are trying to sell IM services that include more features for corporate IT management. IBM has sold its Lotus products for years.
IBM's Workplace initiative also offers a Java-driven approach for building 'rich client' applications. The audience for Adobe and Macromedia's software consists of so-called creative professionals, such as web designers and graphics artists.
Ken Bisconti, vice president of IBM's Workplace, Portal and Collaboration business, said more customers than ever are pushing the company to expand capabilities for creating and using new collaborative tools.
Jonathan Spira, an analyst at Basex, said: "Integrating the Siemens OpenScape technology into Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony will simplify the ability to build true collaborative business environments and communicate in real-time across mixed...