There are four main areas of improvement in the new version of Sametime:
Sametime meetings - is vastly improved. It was demoed at the keynote this morning, but the meeting room functionality, meeting recording, discussions, questions and minute taking features look very nice indeed.
Sametime client - not that much change between 8.0.2, but coming along is a DHTML based web client which can be provided on an extranet basis, which is reasonably feature-complete. Under the hood is a set of web-based REST APIs, which means customised clients can also connect in to this interface to. It does require a Sametime web proxy server, though.
Mobile clients - There are enhanced mobile clients for Blackberry & Windows mobile, as well as those clients also being able to use the web browser version too
Audio-Visual - AV performance has been improved, with new codecs provided to double the video/audio quality for the same bandwidth. There is also better bandwidth allocation/management provided. Also coming is interoperability with external video conference systems, including Polycom and Tandberg.
Intergration with Microsoft OCS will be there, but that's also being backported to 8.0.2 via a hot fix that will be available next week. (Can someone please make sure Alan sees this???)
Sametime 8.5 is expected to ship in Q3 2009
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