Nortel and IBM are teaming up to launch <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2145580,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV061307STR5">an integrated suite of voice over IP and multimedia applications</A> running on IBM's System i server, which is popular with small and midsize enterprises.

The integrated offering will turn System i servers into IP PBXes capable of supporting a mix of IP telephony applications and collaboration applications such as IBM's Lotus Sametime instant messaging, Web collaboration, presence, whiteboarding and other applications.