IBM offers no charge Lotus Sametime trial
ConvergenceAsia staff
14/06/2007

IBM has announced a no charge, 90-day trial offer of its unified communications and collaboration platform, IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1.

Lotus Sametime features business-ready instant messaging (IM), Web conferencing, point-to-point video capabilities, mobile device support and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) voice chat.

With this trial, businesses will be able to exchange instant messages via a computer or mobile device, take advantage of integrated VoIP and video conferencing capabilities, and conduct Web conferences.

Lotus Sametime allows organisations to select the best collaboration method without opening multiple applications. In addition, Lotus Sametime is built on the open Eclipse framework, giving organisations the flexibility to expand and customise their platform without being locked into one proprietary software model.

The no charge trial version of Lotus Sametime can be evaluated for 90 days and includes popular features such as:
-IP telephony integration
-Integrated VoIP
-Integration with Microsoft Office and Outlook
-Point-to-point video
-Mobile device support
-Plugin and mash-up capabilities

After customers have completed the 90-day trial, they can purchase a full Lotus Sametime licence. This licence includes the IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway, which allows users to send and receive instant messages with users of AIM, Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger networks.

Lotus Sametime, and the 90-day trial version, is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh clients and AIX, Linux, Windows, i5/OS and z/OS servers at Lotus Sametime is available at a suggested list price of $57.00 per user for a one-time software licence.

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