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IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] vs Microsoft Office Communications Server [EOL] comparison

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    It is user-friendly. Unskilled workers can use it comprehensively.
    It saves costs, time, and energy. It improves the relationship with my customers.
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    Lotus Sametime Meetings
    Office Communications Server, MS Office Communications Server [EOL]
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    Overview
    IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings is platform for unified communications and collaboration. It provides a core set of synchronous (real-time) communication services that make it easier to find, reach and collaborate with colleagues, customers and business partners over an intranet or the Internet. Lotus Sametime awareness technology lets members who have logged in to Lotus Sametime to see all other members who are logged in. While awareness lists support instant collaboration with other online users, the Lotus Sametime Meeting Room Center provides a central meeting place for members of the community. The Lotus Sametime client is a Java application that uses the Eclipse-based IBM Lotus Expeditor. The Lotus Sametime client leverages the Eclipse plug-in framework to provide developers with extensibility features that go far beyond those available in previous Lotus Sametime releases. Instant meetings are meetings that Lotus Sametime Connect users can create on the fly, and are perfect for quick meetings when you don't need to save the meeting room, its content, and related information. The Lotus Sametime client allows users to talk to other Lotus Sametime users through their computer's audio features and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. Users who are equipped with video components, Users can send files, allows the users to instantly create a telephone conference and equipped with location awareness that can be customized to reflect different locations.

    Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Management API suite provides a set of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes used to manage and support an Office Communications Server deployment, as well as any managed code and Microsoft SIP Processing Language applications installed on it. Office Communications Server offers a Standard Edition and an Enterprise Edition:

    • Standard Edition is designed for use in small or medium-sized organizations. Standard Edition is also recommended for organizations that do not require the performance, scalability, and high availability that Enterprise Edition provides.
    • Enterprise Edition is designed for large-scale deployments that are typical of large organizations. In an Enterprise Edition deployment, multiple Office Communications Server Enterprise Edition servers are deployed as a pool behind a load balancer. Servers in the pool share a central Microsoft SQL Server database that stores user data.
    Sample Customers
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    Aruba Networks, Senelec, QNet Limited, New Belgium Brewing Company, ETA a.s., YES Prep Public Schools, Del Monte Foods, CDW, Tieto Corporation

    IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Emerging Solutions while Microsoft Office Communications Server [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Emerging Solutions. IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Office Communications Server [EOL] is rated 9.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Office Communications Server [EOL] writes "It is user-friendly. Unskilled workers can use it comprehensively". IBM Lotus Sametime Meetings [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Office Communications Server [EOL] is most compared with .

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