[asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in earnestnextyear, says Ballmer

[Gary G. Hendershot]

I took a look at this slide show and saw a lot that I like ... this level of
integration between voice and email has been along time coming and I think
it will eventually sell very well ...  my initial reaction is, I WANT IT NOW
...
 
we use an Exchange 2003 server in our own shop ...  I have for some time
considered moving to a Linux based platform for our Email as I believe it to
be less costly/complex to manage and maintain ... And I really do not like
the Active Directory model that Exchange relies on ... however, when this
level of functionality becomes available in Exchange, I will have something
new to consider in the equation ... 
 
I am not a big fan of Exchange ... I have installed and supported this
system for many years and have developed something of a love/hate
relationship with it ...  however, if it becomes clear that I could only get
these features with Exchange, I would give serious consideration to buying
my Exchange server a box of candy and some flowers ...
 
the questions I would like to see answers to are these ...
 
where is the controlling interface for this integration ???  is it at the
mail server ???  is it at the voice server ???  is it at the web client ???
or is it a combination of all of the above ???  if you have limited
resources, where do you allocate them to most efficiently achieve the goal
???
 
is there a design concept that would permit this level of integration to be
implemented using my choice of email server and client in combination with
Asterisk ???  or am I doomed to maintaining a relationship with an 800
gorilla from Redmond ???  I would be very cautious about investing effort in
an implementation that was Microsoft specific as the Microsoft API's have a
history of being a moving target that only the chosen few can hit ...
 
I think that all the individual pieces of what I saw in this slide show are
available NOW as open source components ... it looks to me like the big
challenge here is integrating all the pieces so they all work together to
provide the desired functionality ... am I wrong about this analysis ???
 
G.Hendershot

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From: Curt Shaffer [mailto:cshaffer at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:08 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in
earnestnextyear, says Ballmer



Take a look at OVA..

 

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/exchange/2007/Phone_Based_User_Experience_With_Out
look_Voice_Access_300k.wmv

 

 

 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Robar
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:13 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in earnest
nextyear, says Ballmer

 

Unified messaging would be nice. Not just having my VM's e-mailed to me, but
to be able to manage them from with Outlook (or any other mail client for
that matter) would be nice. I picture it sort of like an IMAP mailbox, and
the mail client just has some kind of functionality to recognize that the
message is a VM and not a mail message (so it could display length,
date/time received, CID, and provide a "play" button). 

Just my two cents.

Alex

On 11/7/06, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/international/asia/1
5944981.htm

 

There's not much in the article so only click through if super interested
but I'm curious and looking for people's opinions.

 

What application integration would you like to see between MS (either Office
or other aspects of the vista/xp OS) and Asterisk. Apart from dial from
outlook and number pop I'm kind of curious what other functionality there is
to be developed (I'd also like to see drop and drag from outlook into
conference calls.

 

 

 

What would you like to see in asterisk, if we get some solid responses we'll
see about organizing some bounties to get it developed.

 

 

 

Regards, 

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net 
<mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). 

 

 


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