Talking with Clint Boulton at eWeek, he mentioned that he is inundated with pitches about ‘unified communications’ (UC) from a wide variety of very different companies, with very different solutions.
So, I thought I’d write my own perspective to try to clarify. There are basically 4 different ‘flavors’ of UC offering:

1. The software platforms like Unison [...]

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Interesting move from Cisco this morning, when it announced its ‘collaboration’ lineup. To me, it does not address the elephant in the room: what to do about MS Outlook and Exchange?
Sure, Cisco has has been buying some firms like PostPath (an Exchange 2003 replacement) and Jabber, the instant messaging company. But the fact is, [...]