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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>They have partnered with Polycom for hard phones, and may I say,
they’re fairly sweet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Lelio Fulgenzi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott Voll<br>
<b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] End of the PBX<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Good points. I agree. I think
MS will have to concentrate on hardening their systems before people will jump
to running their PBX on it. Then again, if they can tolerate the system going
down once and a while, maybe they won't care.<br>
<br>
The other thing is, as far as I know, MS is not going to be producing hard
phones. Something to consider.<br>
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---<br>
Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>
Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>
(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)<br>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
&quot;Bad grammar makes me [sic]&quot; - Tshirt<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: &quot;Scott Voll&quot; &lt;svoll.voip@gmail.com&gt;<br>
To: &quot;Tim Ritter&quot; &lt;timritter@gmail.com&gt;<br>
Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:05:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] End of the PBX<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>I don't know if I can give you much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>M$ does do a good job of Presence, and IM.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; I do have a school using Exchange 2k7 for
there UM system.&nbsp; works well for them.&nbsp; We use OCS for Presence and
IM and am working on integrating it with CM when I have time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>I don't think I like the idea of runing my call processing on M$
now that I'm on the appliance based CM.&nbsp; 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>just my 2 cents<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Tim Ritter &lt;<a
href="mailto:timritter@gmail.com" target="_blank">timritter@gmail.com</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a
href="http://www.techworld.com.au/article/275963/microsoft_rounds_voice_assaul"
target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://www.techworld.com.au/article/275963/microsoft_rounds_voice_assaul</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>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.&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>My company is a
MS house and this type system will gain a lot of interest especially since it
is &quot;free&quot;, 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...&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Your thoughts
and sugestions about how to combat this...</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#888888'>&nbsp;</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#888888'>Tim</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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