IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings

Few  other features you’ll find useful:

• Presence enabled communications – You’re DID assigned to communicator allows PSTN and OnNet call setups that you can route to voice mail, im or take the voice call. No more telling an chat initiated conversation that you are on your Cisco VoIP phone and “give me 5 mins”

• Missed voice conversations are emails in exchange 

• Voice mail = email in exchange

From a market perspective, this is a clear Microsoft game changer.

Assume Global Crossing is a typical IT centered company (which I do ), then let’s agree there are (3) applications that are available to all Global Crossing Employee’s desktop : 1. IE, 2. Communicator , and 3. Outlook.

 Then it makes sense that Microsoft will take their installed base to the next level of Unified Communications with the release of OCS and Exchange 2007.

 Go Microsoft Go (from an old UNIX guy – you really have the end user commercial experience nailed!)