[cisco-voip] End of the PBX

[Scott Voll]

I don't know if I can give you much.

M$ does do a good job of Presence, and IM.  I think that Unified messaging
still has a little to be desired, but in 3 to 5 years I think they could
nail that down.  I do have a school using Exchange 2k7 for there UM system.
works well for them.  We use OCS for Presence and IM and am working on
integrating it with CM when I have time.

I don't think I like the idea of runing my call processing on M$ now that
I'm on the appliance based CM.  But that doesn't mean that there won't be a
mix and match of systems in the future if both M$ and Ci$co don't do things
to make one system or the other, truely the best.

MS doesn't currently have any contact center stuff to my knowledge so that
will have to come if they really want to contend in the PBX market.

just my 2 cents

Scott

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Tim Ritter <timritter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been looking all over for a forum to ask other Cisco PBX people
> about Microsoft and their PBX plans... this is the only one I can find that
> seems right. I hope you will give me your opinions and not kill me for not
> asking a technical question...
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> http://www.techworld.com.au/article/275963/microsoft_rounds_voice_assaul
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> After reading this article it is obvious to me Microsoft intends to replace
> the PBX. The timeline looks like 3 to 5 years before they are in a position
> to fully replace the PBX and go head to head with the leaders of the PBX
> industry.
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> My company is a MS house and this type system will gain a lot of interest
> especially since it is "free", not free as in free beer but free as in you
> already pay for it in your Microsoft CAL enterprise licenses so why not use
> it and decommission the Costly PBX...
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> Your thoughts and sugestions about how to combat this...
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> Tim
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