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Microsoft and Novell Partnership and more
Breaking News from the Interop Las Vegas 2007 IT Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nevada. For six days, 20,000 IT and business leaders are in Las Vegas this week to see more than 450 exhibitors and attend 200+ educational sessions. Today was an announcement made by the leaders in IT and communication industry titled “Microsoft and Industry Leaders to Bridge Communications Systems“.
This announcement is only indirectly related to internet marketing, but it is important for everybody who is doing business on the internet, since it is about the technology behind all the stuff that makes up your online business.
“Today at Interop Las Vegas 2007, Microsoft Corp. and 12 industry leaders announced plans to make it easier for businesses to protect and extend their communications investments. These industry leaders are extending their support for unified communications software from Microsoft by implementing the company’s interoperability specification for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. This broad interoperability will help businesses deploy software-based unified communications and cost-effectively adapt to voice and data network convergence.”
And now the important part
In the two months since Microsoft published the interoperability specification, global telephony and networking companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Ericsson, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., Mitel Networks Corp., NEC Corp., Nortel Networks and Siemens Enterprise Communications, and gateway providers AudioCodes Ltd., Dialogic Corp. and Quintum Technologies Inc. have stated their support for the interoperability specification for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Together these vendors provide interoperability with approximately 90 percent of communication systems.”
I also got today an Email from InformationWeek who are doing a survey about an Advertisement for Novell’s and Microsoft InterOp partnership and what people think about it. Good timing. More information about this partnership is available at the special website that was put up for this partnership at MoreInterOp.com.
They seem to be serious about this and I believe that this is a good thing. It is about time to start tearing down the walls between the two platforms “Microsoft” and “Unix/Linux/Open Source”, which dominate the IT and communication technology infrastructure.
There should be the choice between one OR the other. AND as a choice will be beneficial for everybody. Way to go Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Ericsson, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., Mitel Networks Corp., NEC Corp., Nortel Networks and Siemens.
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