Ferris speculates on the real reasons for the merger of the Microsoft Exchange Team and the RTC organisations …
Earlier this month, we published a bulletin about Microsoft’s merger of the Exchange and Real Time Collaboration groups. Here are some more thoughts on the subject.
… Here’s the real reason for the reorg: The combination of Exchange 12 — with its new voicemail services and OVA — and Live Communications Server 12 provides MS with all of the software necessary to start providing a comprehensive telephony offering to the small to medium-size business market (we’re assuming Microsoft integrates the SIP-based PBX functionality from the Media Streams acquisition).
Think Microsoft Converged Communications Server. Unifying the two groups is a prerequisite to doing this …
[Via Ferris Research Weblog]
