The unified communications war between Microsoft and IBM has so far been pretty one-sided, with the giant from Redmond having the publicity edge over Big Blue.
Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator client made big waves in the industry compared to IBM's Lotus Sametime 8.0 conferencing and collaboration suite, which has been selling steadily.
That may change in 2009 with two notable releases software from two of the biggest names in the industry