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Microsoft buys persistent chat to match IBM and Skype

Posted by Phil Wolff on August 30, 2007 03:59 PM |

Skype and IBM's Lotus Sametime offered persistent group chat for years. Microsoft is buying Parlano to add those features to its enterprise Unified Communications products.

 

Microsoft buys persistent chat to match IBM and Skype

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Wow. I have read about Parlano before and I really think they have a very compelling product with MindAlign. Persistent chat really solves the previous problem of corporate users with IM: not having a permanent record of the communication creates problems in accontatibility -- and this is very important in the enterprise/corporate context. I think this will be a great boost to Microsoft's offering.

Posted by: Dave | August 31, 2007 07:46 PM

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