[JDEV] Link between AOL and a Messenger-based network.

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:18:21PM +0100, Timothy Carpenter wrote:
> See article below: Reuters, who use a modified Microsoft Messenger network
> internally have gained agreement with AOL for an adapter to link their
> internal network to the greater AOL/AIM world. This may be one ripple from
> the problems of MSN upgrade...who knows?...but interesting to watch, as as
> far as I understand, the Reuters internal Messenger network cannot connect
> to the greater MSN world. (correct me if I am wrong).
> 
> Article: 
> http://www.fool.com/news/mft/2003/mft03090906.htm?source=eptyholnk303100&log
> visit=y&npu=y

My understanding is that Reuters does not use a modified MSN Messenger
system, but is the beta customer for MS's new "SIP-based" server, which
used to be called RTC but has been renamed. So anything related to the
Reuters system is totally unrelated to the MSN Messenger service. As to
the AIM connectivity, I would think this is some sort of gateway, since
MS's SIP-based system doesn't even support server-to-server.

Peter

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