I've posted a lot recently regarding enterprise social messaging ("Twitter for the enterprise"): Twitter in the Workplace Social Messaging & Socialtext Signals: Before We Get Too Excited... Twitter Compared to IM, Email and Forums Enterprise Twitter: Clarity Amid The Hype Enterprise Versions Of ...

Microsoft announced this week (Monday, March 2, 2009), that its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), was available for trial in 19 countries. It disclosed Office Communications Online would be available in April 2009. I wanted to share some thoughts on the unified communications aspect of the ...

John Del Pizzo from the IBM Sametime team responded to my post - but, I'm not persuaded by the counter-arguments.   Point 1 He dinged us on: "...the total cost of ownership is not clearly outlined, a reasonable TCO model would establish a timeline (say 3 years) and include the total costs, includi...

  Last week, in more pre-Lotusphere PR, IBM announced their intent to acquire Outblaze’s email technology and make it part of Bluehouse, IBM’s cloud-based social computing and collaboration offering, which is now in beta.    This is a fascinating acquisition.  Why acquire Out...

News of Nortel’s bankruptcy filing hit the news yesterday.  No one is really surprised. First thoughts, you can bet that giants like Cisco and Avaya will be courting some Nortel customers.  The truth of it is, Nortel while they have some great products – was not run well.   Hopefully this s...

Our virtual launch is coming very soon, but I thought I would share some tidbits of information that you should know about OCS 2007 R2.  Just something to whet your appetite … 10.   64-bit We’ve made the switch to 64-bit at last.  Industry trends all point to this being the r...

UCStrategies has a good post on the outlook for Unified Communications in 2009.  Some experts are saying that Unified Communications (and Web 2.0) are causing serious security issues for enterprises so I find that UCStrategies’ analysis is very compelling.  Here is the link to their outlook ...

Yesterday’s 2008: The Year that VoIP Died generated a slew of interesting responses. Jon Arnold and Andy Abramson wrote me in email to say that I had made the same points that they had.  While it’s true that I made many of the same points, my view of their meaning is perhaps different.Â...

On the 19th of December Office Communications Server 2007 R2 was Released To Manufacturing (Build 6907), so it is in good time for the official launch on February 3rd. We have been working with R2 since the Beta and are currently working hard to develop our material for our 4 days on-site Voice trai...

Every year I enjoy writing a post with my predictions for the next year.  It's a nice way to empty the old thoughts from my brains so there's room for new ones.  Plus I leave a trail of blog posts so I can see how my thoughts change from year to year. In retrospect I've realized that each year ten...