History
IBM Sametime has been an IBM product since 1998, when the product was the synthesis of technologies IBM acquired from two companies: the first, an American company called Databeam, provided the architecture to host T.120 dataconferencing (for web messaging) and H.323 Multi-Media Conferencing; the second was Ubique, an Israeli company whose software technology provided the "presence awareness" functionality that allows people to detect which of their contacts are online and available for messaging or conferencing.
In 2008, Gartner positioned IBM for the first time as a leader in their Unified Communications Magic Quadrant.
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