__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 03 April 2007 18:30 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft VOIP app confuses
>>
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>>| Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between
>>| acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How
>>| Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human
>>| testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola
>>| virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between
>>| Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point.
>>|
>>| When Microsoft briefed me on Office Communications Server just a
>>| little while back (and I dutifully attempted to unravel that mystery
>>| here, I flat out asked the question: "Is Microsoft getting into VOIP
>>| with OCS?" and the answer was [paraphrased for lyrical aesthetics]
>>| 'No. OCS is evolving into a multiplatformed internal communications
>>| hub with VOIP hooks." Then a couple of weeks go by, and Redmond
>>| drops Response Point at their second annual Small Business Summit.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b143079290%3bfp%3b4194304%3bfpid%3b1
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> Microsoft have been getting very close to Nortel recently, so it's quite
> possible that they are about to attempt to take on the existing PBX
> vendors. Unfortunately, or perhaps with classic Microsoft timing,
> they're about to enter this market just as Asterisk is maturing into a
> top-notch product.
>
> OSS is waiting only for a good integrator to put all the pieces together
> now.
Don't forget 3Com. They seem to have been getting close to Digium and they
can bring mass adoption with their channel. In fact, this could bring a
rivival to that company (Motorola and Novell took this route as well, with
Google being a poster child).
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