Good overview
here
on the state of Voice over IP, including how the technology fits into the bigger
picture of UC.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 23, 20080 comments
Hello, again. Why are you hearing from us on a Monday? Well, we're back with
another UC special edition of RCPU.
If you've figured out exactly what UC is, then you're already way
ahead of a lot of people. So, now it's time to figure out how big the UC
market is -- something analysts have discussed without really reaching any
kind of consensus.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 23, 20080 comments
Microsoft's
UC
mega-partner
is getting around with other vendors, as well.
Nortel
and IBM
have just released some Lotus-specific UC stuff that's sure to make
folks in Redmond grit their teeth just a bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 23, 20080 comments
Shirley, you're joking. No, it's true! It's all over for Jon Shirley at Microsoft,
as the venerable Redmonder is
leaving
the company's board of directors
.
Staying on the Microsoft board, however, is Texas Christian University basketball
legend
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 19, 20080 comments
By now, you all know that the Boston Celtics have won the NBA championship
-- sometimes called the NBA "World" Championship, so take that, Europe
-- for the first time in 22 years. To celebrate the return of the legendary
franchise to greatness, and because your editor was out a bit late last night
celebrating, we're going to bring back Reader Feedback and feature messages
from some of RCPU's legendary e-mailers.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 19, 20080 comments
We couldn't make this up: Microsoft might be
facing
antitrust action in China
.
Um, what now? China? We know that the Chinese economy is pretty wide open these
days, but aren't we still talking about a communist country here with a one-party
government? And Microsoft might be in trouble for being too powerful? Again,
irony...we
love it.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 19, 20080 comments
A backup application for SQL Server or Exchange Server
for
just $1,000 bucks
? Believe it -- and it's sold 100 percent through the channel.
Plus, the company is only one letter away from sharing a name with a large Dutch
bank.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 18, 20080 comments
When most people think of summer, they think sunshine and blue skies. But the
folks at Salesforce.com think about clouds --
cloud
computing, that is
. There you go, Salesforce.com, we've just given you a
super-cheesy line for your Summer '08 demo. You're welcome.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 18, 20080 comments
We really only put
this
in here because we love the word "array."
Posted by Lee Pender on June 18, 20080 comments
"For the moment, we are working in a Microsoft environment."
-- Christos Ellinides, the director of corporate IT solutions and services
at the European Commission
If you love irony, you have to love that quote. After years of hacking away
at Microsoft by imposing fines and generally being a nuisance, the European
Commission is looking at itself to find that it's still, at least in part, a
Microsoft shop.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 18, 20081 comments
"I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy"
-- from "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
If you remember the song from which we took today's opening quote, then you're
probably a pretty big '80s music nerd. And that's a good thing because it's
the nerds we're talking to today -- not so much the '80s music nerds but open
source nerds, although we figure the groups might overlap pretty heavily.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 17, 20080 comments