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"Be warned, it may be hard to pry it away from users..."

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• Author: Adam S Gartenberg
• May 21, 2007
• Category:  Sametime 

That's the closing line from an article recently published in Intranet Journal, alerting administrators of a potential "risk" of downloading the 90-day trial code for Lotus Sametime 7.5.1  The article gives a very thorough overview of Sametime's capabilities and benefits, and at one point the author, John Roling, calls out one of the reasons many companies look to Sametime as an alternative to Public IM networks:

There are a few other reasons to consider it over the many public services. Foremost is security. Since Sametime runs on your own servers internally within your organization, it's more secure than sending information over the public IM and web conferencing services. Also, internal traffic is encrypted between endpoints to protect against anyone sniffing the traffic internally.
 
Administrators have the ability to lock down various pieces of Sametime based on back-end policies. You can enable or restrict most of the features the server and clients have to offer. This is something you cannot do if you just allow everyone in your organization to use public IM. Now if you want to allow access to the public IM networks, the Sametime Gateway allows you to do that, but in a very granular fashion. So it's about choice. You can tailor the security to your needs.

Link: Enhance Your Intranet with Sametime 7.5.1

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