Comments on: Microsoft’s VoIP Attack

By: GigaOM » Microsoft still searching for its VoIP

GigaOM » Microsoft still searching for its VoIP — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:59:09 +0000

[...] many times will Microsoft try its hand at Voice over IP before it finds a winner? While waiting for its enterprise VoIP strategy to build steam, Redmond [...]

By: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Yahoo Messenger Update, Does Anyone Care?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Yahoo Messenger Update, Does Anyone Care? — Fri, 13 May 2005 21:26:43 +0000

[...] pe represent voice-over-the-internet, it doesn’t even count. They are late – AOL and MSN have better and more relevant products. I wrote about this almost a year ago. They sh [...]

By: Andrew Hansen

Andrew Hansen — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:45:40 +0000

The only thing that has any traction here is argument that no one ever got fired for buying… I did some napkin pricing analysis and for an office of 10 people, LCS 2005 will lighten your wallet (including Server and SQL licenses btw you need CAL for each person using LCS) in the neighbourhood of $6958.00 USD, for basic IM and presence functions. Add a SIP stack, Video resource, Sharepointe licenses, the Add-in for AOL, YIM etc.. this rather ho-hum solution will easily scale into the 20K mark or 2K per seat for a 10 person office. When combinations of solutions can be found on the web such as Skype, Pulver Communicator, Innen, Jabber etc. plus a clever web programmer and you can have a more robust solution for 1/10 the cost. It would appear to me all but the technically illiterate would think twice before deploying a solution such as this. Watch a developer’s hair stand up when you say “can you integrate this with Active Directory” …