Editing HCL Sametime (section)

==History==
HCL Sametime became an IBM product in 1998 as the synthesis of technologies IBM acquired from two companies:

# an American company called Databeam provided the architecture to host [[T.120]] dataconferencing (for web messaging) and [[H.323]] Multi-Media Conferencing<ref>{{cite web|last1=Virzi|first1=Anna Maria|title=Lotus to Acquire DataBeam, Ubique|url=http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/20711/Lotus+to+Acquire+DataBeam+Ubique.htm|website=InternetNews|access-date=4 August 2017}}</ref>
# Ubique, an Israeli company whose Virtual Places Chat software technology (also known as VPBuddy) provided the "presence awareness" functionality that allows people to detect which of their contacts are online and available for messaging or conferencing<ref>{{cite book |last=Patrick |first=John R. |author-link=John R. Patrick |date=2001 |title=Net Attitude: What it Is, how to Get It, and why Your Company Can't Survive Without it |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0738205137 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/netattitudewhati00patr }}</ref>

The Sametime v3.1 client was part of the standard platform loaded by the IBM Standard Software Installer (ISSI) for many years, enabling communications over the corporate intranet by hundreds of thousands of IBM employees.  The next major release was the Sametime v7.5 client, built on the [[Eclipse (software)]] platform, enabling the use of the plug-in framework.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/sametime-sdk/ |title=Extending IBM Lotus Sametime Connect V7.5 |last1=Kehn |first1=Dan |last2=Ott |first2=Lori |publisher=IBM |date=22 August 2006 |website=IBM developerWorks}}</ref>

In 2008 [[Gartner]] positioned IBM for the first time as a [[leadership|"leader"]] in Gartner's [[unified communications|Unified Communications]] [[Magic Quadrant]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article1/article1.html |title=Research Media Products {{!}} Gartner |access-date=2009-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701233400/http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article1/article1.html |archive-date=2009-07-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>