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AOL added 4 new IM partners


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Basically this change will allow all those platforms to communicate with each other as extensions to their IM network.  However, I do hear time and time again at conferences how the AOL integration vanished from the Sametime Connect interface (due to licensing issues).  I wonder if Lotus can get the licensing back?  The new program launched by AOL attempts to bring some federation to the IM communities (yes federation as in what you do with multiple directory entities in LDAP).


The latest arrangement coincides with the launch of AOL's Enterprise Federation Partner (EFP) program intended to help communities of at-work instant messaging users connect and communicate in real time.

The EFP program, which added partners Antepo, Jabber, Omnipod, and Parlano, will allow each company's customers to communicate in real time with co-workers, vendors, partners and customers who use the AOL messaging network


Now personally, I did not like or use the integrated AOL in Sametime Connect since it lacked so much functionality.  I do like the rich text and emoticons.  So moving to Trillian and the integrated IM in the Notes client made life quite simple.  Notice that the ones they partner with up front are not that large.  Of all those listed I have only played with the Omnipod client.