VoiceCon: Avaya CEO talks about changes, competition
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| Louis D'Ambrosio became top guy at Avaya last July, making him only
| the company's second CEO since its inception in 2000, when Avaya was
| spun off from Lucent's legacy business telephony arm...
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| We're a Linux-based product. We have a compelling set of software
| attributes. In terms of execution, we talk about getting into
| fighting shape.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030807-avaya-ceo-changes-competition.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Last week I read that Microsoft considered buying them. Maybe it was
antitrust that prevented this (can't recall), but either way it could be
another case of Linux threat being acquired.
Related:
Photosynth for Linux?
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| This is the demonstration video of Photo Tourism which was later
| transformed into Microsoft Photosynth (Wikipedia). Now, you'll find
| it difficult to disagree with me when I say this is a great product.
| It just has that "cool factor".
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| However, the Photosynth website says at the system requirements: Only
| Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RC1 or later are supported at this
| time. However, the video I showed above clearly shows it running on
| Linux (take a look at the titlebar of the web browser or the "add
| annotation dialog"). This could mean two things:
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| 1. Microsoft deliberately decided not to support Linux
| 2. Microsoft may still want to make this available for Linux
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http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/photosynth-for-linux/
The former (1) confirmed in the comments.
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