Microsoft in the lead in ‘Presence’ ?

Over on Ed Brill’s weblog there was quite a nice dicussion on RTC and about some comments Melanie Turek an analyst of Nemeretes in a presentation in the weeks before. One of the comments highlighted that quote and I asked permission to quote it. I have had no answer (yet) I thought I post it and hopefully Ed will allow me to …


messaging-pipeline-nemertes-ibm-announcement-moves-lotus-collaboration-deeper-into-real-time: “the figure was 7% for IBM, and 79% for Microsoft. This was for organizations who are using presence from a ‘presence platform’ in applications other than IM. I raised the issue with Melanie that IBM has 18 million or so seats of Sametime, and that presence from Sametime is threaded into the Notes 6.5 client for mail and applications. Melanie claimed that few are using this”