Lotus Sametime

The geek-developer dream comes true: a full-on collaboration environment with an open API and a name right out of Star Trek. Today at the Lotushpere conference IBM unveiled Project Vulcan - the new cloud platform for collaboration and social tools, that is already compared to Google Wave. But unlike Google Wave, Vulcan - is not a separate application, but an integrated environment for all future and existing Lotus apps, including Lotus Notes and LotusLive. Vulcan will be available to developers in the second half of 2010, and meanwhile it will be available to LotusLive Labs team, which has already shown 4 new projects for LotusLive:

The new version of Lotus Notes 6.5 adds integration with the enterprise messenger IBM Lotus Sametime. From now Lotus Notes client users will be able to see the current online status of their colleagues and start chat with one click for example right in the address book. In addition, with the help of new Lotus Domino Designer 6.5, developers can embed the online status and chat feature in custom apps built on Lotus Domino platform.

Today, IBM unveiled Lotus Sametime, the solution designed for instant messaging and collaboration over the Internet. The solution is built on Ubique aquired by IBM and consists of Sametime Connect Client and Sametime Server. The Lotus Sametime functionality includes a online status monitoring, instant messaging and object sharing, which allows to simultaneously work with documents and applications over the Internet like in Microsoft NetMeeting. The server costs $ 5,000 and client license costs $20 per user. Lotus Sametime is available as a standalone product or as a component of Lotus Notes / Domino.