Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) Everyplace provides mobile users with the instant messaging and awareness capabilities of Lotus Sametime from WAP- and SMS-enabled mobile devices. Mobile users can see if their colleagues are online and send instant messages or initiate text chat. Desktop users can see if their mobile colleagues are online and use the best way to communicate with them whether via an instant message, phone call or e-mail. In this Redpaper we introduce the Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) Everyplace product - and provide some best practices for installing and utilizing this product in your environment.

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Gateway is a new Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) feature in Release 3.1 that uses SIP to enable instant messaging and audio/video collaboration between two different Sametime communities. In this Redpaper we introduce the Lotus Instant Messaging SIP Gateway, and provide best practices for installing and utilizing this feature in your environment.

IBM® Lotus® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime)™ 3.1,with more than 9 million users, is the market leading instant messaging and Web conferencing solution for business. The Solaris 9 Operating Environment is the foundation for Sun systems. Designed for multiprocessing and 64-bit computing, Solaris software delivers a consistent computing environment that scales to handle heavy traffic, huge data sets, and CPU-intensive problems. This IBM Redpaper describes how to leverage the Sun Solaris 9 environment as a stable and scalable platform for Sametime 3.1. Topics covered in this Redpaper are: - Basic installation and setup guidelines for Sametime 3.1 on Solaris 9 - General Solaris performance monitoring techniques - Performance tuning suggestions for optimizing a Sametime 3.1 install on Solaris 9 - Results of basic performance benchmarks demonstrating the performance tuning of Sametime 3.1 on Solaris 9

The WebSphere Portal Family consists of three packaged offerings: the Portal Enable offering is the base offering; Portal Extend and Portal Experience add more functionality. WebSphere Portal Extend allows your portal users to act on information and applications via collaboration with other portal users. This Redpaper discusses the collaborative capabilities included in the WebSphere Portal Extend v4.12 offering. It covers an introduction to the WebSphere Portal Family and the concept of Collaborative Portlets; installation and deployment-oriented topics for getting a Collaborative Portal Extend environment up and running; details about the Collaborative Portlets available out-of-the-box with Portal Extend; and best practices for the use of the Collaborative Components API available with Portal Extend, including several sample Collaborative Portlets that leverage this API. This Redpaper is primarily intended for technologists involved with collaborative WebSphere Portal projects. However, the introductory content in each chapter may be useful to managers who are responsible for such projects.