{mosimage}What a difference a day makes! Tuesday June 17 the NXTcomm showfloor opened with an estimated crowd of 35-40,000 attendees working the floor and attending conference sessions. One of my more interesting visits of the day was an extended discussion with the folks from Redmond, who are cutting a high profile at this mostly telecom show.
{mosimage}Microsoft struck back at Google Apps, GoToMeeting, WebEx, DimDim, Acrobat.com, and other burgeoning SaaS “pay as you go” Office applications in announcing “general availability” of Microsoft-hosted versions of their Office Communications Server (OCS) suite of unified communications (UC) server-side apps, including Office Live Meeting (both server software, and hosted by Microsoft); Sharepoint 2007; Active Directory and related “presence management” capabilities, and related server-side applications which should interest MS Exchange Server and SQL users. Collectively, Microsoft is calling this hosted offering of OCS/UC tools “Hosted Messaging and Collaboration”.
{mosimage}Details from Microsoft here . I plan to be in their booth today and tomorrow spending more time learning about Microsoft’s new server-side communications applications, as well as all the details surrounding their latest version (6.1) of Windows Mobile. I will update this blog post with more detailed information on these two topics within 24-48 hours.
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