Quick Links, Nov 6

• Perspective ... Mike on Microsoft and media-streams ... Mike Gotta (Burton Group) shares some thoughts about "work day transitions" (moving between different communication and collaboration technologies), and how this relates to Microsoft's acquisition of media-streams. He raises some valid questions for IT groups to be asking of Microsoft. His conclusion: "The technology puzzle pieces however remain in disarray when it comes to how Media-streams fits into Microsoft’s larger real-time collaboration picture and also how the life-cycle management of this type of rich media fits into Microsoft’s fragmented repository, storage and records management story (e.g., Exchange, LCS, SharePoint)." Mike Gotta


• Product ... Convoq ASAP Pro 2.3 is Coming ... Version 2.3 of ASAP Pro by Convoq is due on November 14. New features: Outlook integration for scheduling meetings, meeting recording tool, and Salesforce.com integration (for launching one click meetings from salesforce.com contacts and leads). Convoq


• Product ... NetOffice Live Long Before Microsoft ... In a news release by email, NetOffice reminded the world that seven years ago it solved the problems that Microsoft Windows Live and Office Live will address. NetOffice also reminds the world that it provides support for free. NetOffice


• Product ... Trilog Group ProjExec 3.0 ... Trilog Group released Version 3.0 of ProjExec, a multi-enterprise project management solution. Works with IBM Workplace, or the Standard edition can run on any J2EE-compliant application server. The Trilog team claim to offer a total cost of ownership that is 33% of Microsoft SharePoint. SearchDomino

Comments

[Niklas]

Folks, Microsoft continues to buy VoIP companies - after Teleo this summer, MS bought Swiss VoIP company (Media-streams.com) last week. What do you think would be Skype’s value if MS (or Google) buys GIPS (current voice engine provider to Skype)?