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Yahoo signs WebEx for messaging products
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 12 June 2003, 19:30 IST
LOS ANGELES: Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) on Wednesday unveiled deals with WebEx Communications Inc. (NasdaqNM:WEBX) and BEA Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS) designed to stitch its popular instant messaging program into business applications and allow them to be shared.
Yahoo said the next version of its corporate messaging system, a release scheduled for sometime around September, would allow users to launch conferences with WebEx's technology from within instant messaging sessions that would let them share programs.
"This is the next natural progression in the way we think people are going to use IM," Steve Boom, senior vice president for Yahoo Enterprise Solutions, told Reuters.
The separate deal with BEA will allow applications developers using BEA's WebLogic Workshop platform to build Yahoo Instant Messenger functions into their programs.
For example, Boom said, a supply-chain management system could be configured so that executives would be automatically notified via instant message if an order is placed that cannot be fulfilled.
Both Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) and the AOL unit of AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:AOL - News) are aggressively pushing into IM for corporations, as businesses begin to recognize it as a platform for quick, low-cost communications among employees scattered around the world.
For the last two years Yahoo has broadened its revenue stream from online advertising into subscription services like e-mail, personal ads, job search and corporate products.