AOL, WebEx AIM At The Office

A collaboration between AOL and online meeting facilitator WebEx plan to offer a business version of AIM to enterprise customers on a subscription basis. The growing popularity of instant messaging has spread to businesses, where many require certain levels of security and functionality that are not always available in freely distributed IM services. An agreement between AIM provider AOL and WebEx will focus on delivering an AIM Pro service, several sources including Red Herring send a billion IMs each day. The market for spending on IM by businesses could top $736 million worldwide in three years. document.write("Email murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.