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- Sametime and ocs Compared
- Brent Kelly from Wainhouse Research has done a great job comparing and contrasting Lotus Sametime and Microsoft OCS 2007. The biggest differences? Orientation and support for telephony. I've flushed details on Sametime's Unified Telephony that he wasn't able to cover and I've summarized the slew of functional differences...
- Tags: SIP, IBM Lotus SameTime, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., PBX, IBM Corp., OCS, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Groupware, Telephony, VOIP, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Microsoft grows its Office Live family
- Microsoft grows its Office Live familyOffice CommunicationsOffice Live Communications Server 2005 LCS is the current product. Office Communications Server 2007 OCS is the future version due soon (I think "Live" was dropped from the name for these exact reasons).When you can turn of a web service......with the click of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live, OCS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Microsoft unified communications product may have slow uptake
- Microsoft unified communications product may have slow uptakeCould be.But OCS is one sweet product. There has been a perhaps better than expected uptake on Office 2007 despite Vista, and that could help drive sales of OCS better than some expect. I'm not sure what is meant about the "skepticism of...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Unified Communications, OCS, unified communications
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Microsoft knights voice services with ocs
- Like a Don Quixote, Microsofts voice services are championing Microsofts unified communications strategy. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 OCS was released to private beta this week. OCS will be the successor to Microsoft Live Communications Server LCS. A bit of LCS history will put OCS in perspective.LCS was first delivered...
- Tags: OCS, Microsoft Corp., Messaging, Unified Communications, VoIP, Voice Services, Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
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- BizTalk Server for Windows Server 2008 not till 2009
- When Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 in February, company officials shared timetables for how long it might take the company to make available compatible versions of its various business applications. But it wasn't until this week, the company finally shared information on how and when it will release a Windows-Server-2008-compatible...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Siemens vs. Microsoft: Round Two
- Siemens announced today two new UC-enabled Contact Center packages based on OpenScape UC Server, and a new Voice Portal solution. The products will be available June 30, 2008. The products are being driven in part by trends in the contact center and in part by trends...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Siemens HiPath OpenScape, Contact Center, Microsoft Corp., UC, Call Centers, Groupware, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Avaya Changes the UC Game
- The battle for enterprise Unified Communications took a pivotal turn this morning when Avaya announced its Intelligent Presence server here at VoiceCon. The Intelligent Presence server collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker's status. More specifically, the Presence Server will...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Avaya Inc., Intelligent Presence Server, Presence Server, Presence Source, E-mail Providers, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Voice over SOA sounds promising -- will vendors deliver?
- Can SOA add automation and intelligence to the way calls and other communications are routed throughout the enterprise? This may be the next great frontier for SOA -- and, at long last, a tangible benefit of architecture for the business. Digital communications, enhanced by SOA ...
- Tags: Business Process, Voice, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., David Greenfield, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Microsoft moves deeper into the software services arena
- After a year or two of sticking a toe in the managed-services waters, Microsoft has decided to take the full software-as-a-service plunge -- at least for some of its enterprise apps. Contrary to rumors circulating around the blogosphere over the weekend, the company is not rolling out...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Service, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- SameTime vs. ocs Act II
- SameTime vs. OCS Act IIReliability = Sametime, MS Crap = ExchangeSimple as that. If you want the negatives of a MS infrastructure you deploy OCS and Exchange and be locked to their garbage pretty much forever.Or if you want freedom to choose your computing platform and reliability, you go...
- Tags: Groupware, IBM Lotus SameTime, OCS Act II, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Sametime vs. ocs Act II
- Apparently my post comparing Sametime and OCS raised a few hairs. IBM PR dashed off an e-mail listing a bunch of points where they disagreed with the piece and the offering manager for IBM Lotus Real-Time Collaboration blogged about it as well. Thanks folk. Now here's where they were...
- Tags: IBM Lotus SameTime, SUT, Exchange, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Can Microsoft Mash SOA and UC?
- The New York Times article about PopFly, Microsoft's mashup maker, got me thinking about how Microsoft will use mashups and SOA with unified communications UC. I asked Eric Swift, Microsoft's senior director of Unified Communications, as much two weeks ago when we met in Redmond First some background. There's...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Office Communications Server 2007
- View Available Dates and LocationsUnified Communications bridges the gap between telephony and computing to deliver real-time voice, messaging, and conferencing to the desktop environment. Office Communications Server OCS is the centerpiece of Microsoft's Unified Communications strategy. OCS brings together e-mail, instant messaging, and conferencing with both...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communications Server, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Training 2008-02-01
- Hosted vs. server-based Unified Communications: come and join the debate
- Let's get a conversation going here about the relative costs and merits of server-based unified communications in the enterprise vs. hosted unified communications solutions. Both types of solutions involve capability of PC to PC voice communications within an enterprise, and often, beyond the enterprise as well. ...
- Tags: Intermedia, Unified Communications, Server, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- News to know: Yahoo; Microsoft; Windows worm hole; Demo 08
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Vista and Windows Server 2008--an unbreakable couple? Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available Larry Dignan: Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb. Techmeme eBay outlines...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mesh Networking, Software, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Hosted Microsoft ocs with PC-to-PC voice announced
- Not every company interested in buying their own Microsoft Office Communications Server can justify the $$$++ budget for it. How much? Lots, depending on the size of the company. Thousands wouldn't be a stretch. That's why hosted OCS would be a more practical...
- Tags: Intermedia, IM, Voice, Communications Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Groupware, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Fonality, Dell team up for SMB VoIP solution
- Here at the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo in Miami Beach, open-source Internet calling solutions provider Fonality is showing a new offering called the Fonality VoIP Phone System. Launched with Dell, the aim of Fonality VoIP Phone System is to make affordable phone...
- Tags: Team, Dell Computer Corp., Fonality, Dell'Oro Group, Small And Medium Business, Fonality VoIP Phone System, Jes, Smb/Sme, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- And the scariest prediction about enterprise VoIP security in 2008 is...
- VoIP security solutions provider Sipera Systems has posted their list of what their Sipera VIPER Labs sees as the five top VoIP Security Threats for 2008. Before I offer this list, two caveats: First, when a company with technological solutions posts their predictions,...
- Tags: Attack, VoIP Security, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Google vs. Microsoft = Search Apps
- Google vs. Microsoft = Search Apps4 month project planningCEO Schmidt said in the NYT article that Google is on a 4 month project planning cycle. That is insane--flying by the seat of your pants--management. But hey, I have to say Google Apps, well let's see 6Gib...
- Tags: E-mail, Groupware, Handhelds, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-16
- Microsoft goes in search of unified-communications developers
- Microsoft goes in search of unified-communications developersThis demonstrates one of Microsoft's core incompetencies.Go to the developer's site for this and then ask yourself one simple question: What the hades does Office Communications DO?Is it an IM server? Is it Sharepoint? Is it a Wiki? Is it a common area for...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business structures, unified communications, Microsoft Corp., IS IT
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
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