The state of instant messaging (IM) is rather like email was back in the days of X.400.
With some notable exceptions, X.400 was mainly used as a way to interconnect incompatible email networks. However, there were problems:
- Interconnectivity was laborious to define.
- There were lots of gateways between products/services.
- Messages lost data and metadata when they went between systems.
Very similar, in fact, to today’s IM world.
… David Ferris, with thanks to IBM’s David Via
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The Daily Incite – November 2, 2006
November 2, 2006 – #148 Good Morning: Its Thursday and I know Ive been pretty quiet on the blog. Im not an excuses kind of guy, nor do I apologize for much (just ask my wife), but its been as busy a week as I can remember. Lots o