IBM debuts messaging technology for partners and customers

IBM
has unveiled Community Tools, a new suite of peer-to-peer applications for
community-based messaging. The applications–available exclusively to IBM
eServer iSeries customers and IBM business partners–

enable immediate collaboration and draw upon the combined knowledge and
technical skills of the already active, 50,000-member "iSeries Nation"
(http://www.ibm.com/iseries/nation) user group.

IBM Community Tools is a messaging client that combines the one-to-many
broadcast messaging technology in IBM MQ Event Broker with the enterprise
instant messaging capabilities of IBM Lotus Sametime, with Web services running
on WebSphere Internet infrastructure software and DB2. IBM technologists debuted
the new applications to 3,000 IBM business partners attending the annual
PartnerWorld conference and expo held in New Orleans, Los Angeles, recently.

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