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If I were a telephone company and I were trying to figure out what Verizon is up to, would I be scared?
Orange launches 'Business Together with Microsoft' service
http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/113741/orange-launches-business-together-with-microsoft-service.html
Posted by Maggie Holland at 11:16AM, Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Microsoft and Orange beef up their relationship to help accelerate the use of unified communications solutions in businesses.
As part of the new offering, Orange will assess, design, implement and manage a bespoke solution, based on individual customer needs, created from a blend of current Microsoft solutions such as Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
Users will then be able to access their e-mails, voicemails, contacts and calendar information as well as making calls, all from a single Windows Outlook interface using a web browser. Real-time communication is also possible using instant messaging or audio, video or web conferencing facilities in the solution.
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Windows Outlook, huh? Hmmm... Sounds pretty minimalist if not downright risky. What will the Union say if you can't let everybody play nice? Really.
"...The first companies to benefit from 'Business Together with Microsoft' will be large multinational companies ...”What if those companies don't want to use Microsoft stuff? Do they have any choice with Orange? Really?
And will this one-off bespoke amalgamation consist of any third-party or other software? Really?
Not if you don't have IP protection.
And how fast will it go? Really?
Not if you don't have IP protection.
Color me Ripe
And how do you expect to automate all this? Really?
