Back soon!

OK - so I haven't been blogging the last three weeks as I took a vacation... but I will be back this week with more to say on these matters.....

Sametime and OCS interconnectivity

Well, what do you know? After blogging about the possibility of OCS and ST interconnectivity yesterday, I receive a note today that a hotfix for the Sametime Gateway is available which will allow it to connect up to OCS2007. So, I'm gonna try it out - watch this space for more details.....

Did you know?

That Sametime and Office Communications Server interconnectivity is so very close but as usual separated by two interpretations of a standard?
The SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions) is the standard I am referring to. Microsoft have taken SIP, added some extensions and that is what they use server to server, whilst Sametime, having a proprietary protocol internally, has a gateway that talks IETF SIP, i.e. the basic, standards-defined SIP. Which means, in layman's terms, that the two systems cannot talk to one another.... without some kind of SIP router/gateway/translator in between.
The good news is that I have heard it rumoured that IBM/Lotus may be releasing a module for their gateway pretty soon that talks Microsoft SIMPLE and thus interconnectivity would take one step forwards.