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 [...]

Answer: when it is a cut-down hosted version from Microsoft that cannot do unified communications.
Microsoft this week launched its “Microsoft Online Services Suite” or MOSS, not to be confused with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (also known as MOSS). Oh, and try to forget that SharePoint Online, a cut-down version of MOSS (the server) is included [...]

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 [...]

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