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Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 05 November 2002 - 11:04 · 1 comment & 92 views
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#1 Posted by n3Mo on 05 Nov 2002 - 12:39
- tried the beta and this application is nice, currently i use smartftp to download stuff (amazing freeware) and cuteftp to manage my websites since i think there is a better file listing function in cuteftp..
An AOL spokesperson said a version of the client, to be released next year to consumers and enterprises alike, will come ready to work with encryption. But users will have to buy a digital certificate from VeriSign to make the feature function. Future versions of the Gateway product will also be cryptography-enabled, he said.
AOL also announced the AIM Developer Access Package and Certified Developer Program. Developers will be able to get their hands on a toolkit that allows them to build AIM presence information into their applications.
The company's web site currently reads: "Partner program license fees and royalties vary with the type and number of applications built as well as the complexity of development support and certification efforts required."
The AOL spokesperson said that the program will accept "applications from interested developers" and that only selected partners will be able to use the SDK. He said: "We would have to make sure it makes sense to us as well as them."
So it's bad news for AOL's rivals, including Microsoft and Yahoo, which would love to get their hands on a way to allow their IM users to message AIM users. These two companies would be unlikely partners in the developer program.
Currently, the systems are only interoperable with iChat, the instant messaging system sold with latest versions of Apple Computer Inc's operating system. Under a deal announced earlier this year, AOL is hosting the messaging network for iChat.
It's the first significant development in the evolution of the AIM service in some time. Around since 1997, the service boasts 180 million registered users and leads the market, though its share is being eroded by more feature-rich offerings from Microsoft Corp and Yahoo! Inc, among others.
"Increasingly, as the AIM service finds its way virally into the workplace, businesses are realizing how instant messaging and its presence technology can complement existing communication services," said AOL CEO Jon Miller,
"With Enterprise AIM Services we're providing organizations an instant messaging platform using a product that's familiar and easy-to-use with the added management and control features they want," said Miller, estimating that AIM is already used in 60% of enterprises.
Extending the free public IM networks to enterprises, where the products can start making money, is a challenge the big three players have all adopted. Yahoo has starting shipping a beta of its enterprise system, and Microsoft is developing a real-time communications platform, codenamed Greenwich, to run on Windows .NET Server 2003.
Yahoo, for one, thinks that the adoption of enterprise-grade instant messaging will drive interoperability between the public IM services, a state of affairs that has been sought by AOL's challengers for several years.