Of Messengers and Monoliths
| Monday, January 22nd, 2007 | --jr |
Those grizzled old-timers amongst us (well, the ones not yelling at Second Life kids to get off our front yard) may remember Yahoo! Messenger Enterprise Edition. No, this wasn't a version personalized by Leonard Nimoy, it was a version of Messenger specifically built for companies. We dropped it a year or two later when we realized that companies really don't want to have another messenger client. They already had one.
A lot of big companies run Lotus as their back end infrastructure of choice. Talk to the IS folks there and watch the blood drain from their heads as you tell them you want the company to adopt yet another piece of software. (It's not a pretty sight.)
So what's a person who has to deal with a large, previously closed company that doesn't want to use your IM client of choice? Well, if they're running Lotus and you're running Y!IM, you use your client of choice.