Jabber this week announced a server-to-server gateway product designed to connect its Jabber XCP (Extensible Communications Platform) with IBM's Lotus Instant Messaging product.
The competing enterprise IM offerings implement different protocols: Jabber's XCP is based on XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), and IBM's Lotus IM is built with SIMPLE (SIP for IM and Presence Leveraging Extensions).
XMPP was recently approved by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards body, and has been endorsed by technology vendors such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard. The Jabber Software Foundation organization claims ten million worldwide users of XMPP, with approximately 260,000 XMPP-based presence servers downloaded globally.
The SIMPLE protocol is still in development at the IETF, but has gained early support from Microsoft and IBM, among others. Because the protocol is still in draft form, current SIMPLE implementations from vendors such as Microsoft and IBM require proprietary extensions.
Jabber's server-to-server gateway, due to ship in the fourth quarter, will allow for basic message and presence information to be shared between applications build on Jabber XCP and Lotus IM. The gateway will work only with IBM's version of SIMPLE, but additional XMPP-to-SIP interoperability releases will be forthcoming, according to Jabber officials.
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