Google’s latest hypefest, which began last week, presents Google Wave as the next advancement in communication. A combination of e-mail, IM and social media, it is, according to the developer “what e-mail would be like if it were invented today”. Wave will be an open source project, although it remains to be seen whether it [...]

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 [...]

There has been much discussion of the battle between Microsoft and Google to win the market for academic e-mail boxes. Those companies (as well as ones like Zimbra) have been giving away their basic products essentially for free in order to gain market share.
Now, Unison has announced our own educational offering. This is different from [...]

A Forbes article looks at Google Apps versus Microsoft and mongers some fear: Apps is “starting to expose chinks in Microsoft’s armor” and “gaining momentum in its audacious assault on Microsoft’s core business”. Yikes.
But where is the proof? Google gave Forbes three customer references – but not one of them has actually switched to Apps [...]