Redmond wants you to get the message
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| For Microsoft right now, the business of workplace communications looks a
| lot like the server business of the early 1990s.
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| Microsoft is not alone in eyeing this market. There are the many niche
| providers that already offer similar technology to the products the
| software maker is releasing. Beyond that are the big players,
| including Cisco, that are going after unified messaging customers.
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| [...]
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| Beyond its own efforts, Microsoft is hoping to convince others, both
| hardware and software makers, to opt to build communications products on
| top of its platform.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-6087607.html?part=rss&tag=6087607&subj=news
Linux and Novell have good presence there... among Open Source, SOA,
Web-based solutions that crop up all then time. The terrain is changing.
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