[cisco-voip] big news - Microsoft and Cisco collaborating again!

[James Buchanan]

I didn't see anything in the announcement about CUCM period. I thought it
was really the ability to join each other's meetings from each other's
room-based video systems. Issues such as federation, etc. don't seem to be
addressed in the announcement.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:49 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> It will be interesting to see how much CUCM integration there is. From
> what I gather, it's going to be Webex room kits that are cloud registered
> that will have access. But, who knows, could be more!
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> Andrewartha
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] big news - Microsoft and Cisco collaborating
> again!
>
> On 5/11/19 8:21 pm, Palmer, Brian wrote:
> > I always figured that Microsoft would utilize Office365 to push more
> > away from Cisco products and into the Microsoft Realm.  Microsoft will
> > offer enterprise products for free in order to pull them into the fold.
> > I figure all Microsoft needs now is to just buy a company that can
> > fill the void they lack in the collaboration space and then they can
> > attempt to offer an even fuller offering with office included.
>
> Microsoft is trying to build out their cloud PBX product, but it's nowhere
> near enterprise. My suspicion is that some big Microsoft O365 customers
> with complicated CUCM environments wanted to connect it to MS Teams, and
> Cisco didn't want people to rip out Webex room systems for MS Teams Room
> systems.
>
> Personally I'm quite happy since we fall into the first category, we're
> heavily into the Microsoft ecosystem but have CUCM, and were looking at
> ripping it out so we could get Teams integration, but concluded that Teams
> Phones and Cloud PBX wasn't mature enough for us (yet).
>
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