Cisco, IBM demonstrate telephony integration
IBM/Lotus said Monday that it is forging a partnership with Cisco as part of its efforts next year to revamp its real-time collaboration platform.
IBM/Lotus said Monday that it is forging a partnership with Cisco as part of its efforts next year to revamp its real-time collaboration platform.
Microsoft on Monday lined up Cisco and a number of telecoms equipment vendors behind its VoIP platform to provide support for emerging voice protocols with the promise of integrating desktop phone systems and the PC.
A year after buying Groove Networks and its peer-to-peer technology, Microsoft has begun laying out plans to develop the software into the offline client it has been missing in its document collaboration story.
IBM/Lotus plans to expand its corporate collaboration tools by adding social relationship, behavior mapping and alerting technology that lets users easily share ideas, data, research and corporate knowledge.
IBM/Lotus has aggressively galloped into its collaborative software future promising not to avoid any fights and laying out plans to expand its Notes/Domino platform with an emphasis on a services architecture model.
Just a week ahead of its rival's annual user conference, Microsoft has unveiled a set of migration tools hoping to win converts from Lotus Notes.
Microsoft has released the first beta for the next version of Exchange and said the software will be generally available in late 2006 or early 2007.
Despite claims by Microsoft during a Tuesday conference call that Windows Vista is on schedule, a presentation given to partners just last month shows otherwise.
HP Wednesday turned a licensing agreement into an acquisition when it signed a deal to buy Trustgenix, which develops a federated identity server.
Microsoft on Monday again updated its volume-licensing program with the addition of a tool that helps users sort through their options for acquiring Microsoft software.
Microsoft has announced a profit jump of 24 per cent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006 as compared to the same quarter last year based on strong sales in its core platform software.
Microsoft Thursday unveiled its first antivirus, antispyware software designed for corporate networks, which will go into beta by year-end and ship in 2006.
Looking to ease the way customers manage their digital identities, Microsoft has begun working to integrate its InfoCard authentication technology with Internet Explorer and is in discussions with the Firefox and Safari browser developers to have them include the technology on their platforms.
Microsoft is planning to unveil a new workflow subsystem for its client and server operating systems that will become a foundation service available on the Windows platform. The tool will be demonstrated at its Professional Developers Conference this week.
Identity vendors Trustgenix and IdentityForge said Monday they would integrate their software to allow users to incorporate mainframe identities into single sign-on projects.