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Well, what a way to end the workday last Friday. Read about my chicken experiences, watch Bill Gates attempting to be Moist and Chewy –Hey PC, you blew it! But I have to give a tip of my hat to Nortel again. Nortel’s “Piles” commercial says a lot about Cisco’s energy usage and raises more questions about Cisco’s lack of greenness. Watch the ad here.
One of the details overlooked in reports I’ve read about Nortel’s acquisition of Pingtel is the fact that the SIPxchange Enterprise Communications Server will no longer be actively sold and marketed to businesses. SIPxchange ECS has been Pingtel’s open source PBX software installed on a server and sold as a turnkey appliance to businesses wanting a preconfigured voice system from Pingtel itself. It’s what the company has sold to businesses that don’t want to go down the road of building their own PBX based on open source software, but still want to take advantage of the low costs associated with open source PBXs.
Who owns the content when you use a Web browser? You think you do, not the browser developer. This would not be the case if the Google Chrome End-User License Agreement (EULA) was still in force. Imagine the complications, security and compliance issues if Google had its way.
I’m still trying to get a grip on Microsoft’s intentions with the much heralded Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign. Apparently tired of taking their lumps in Apple’s "Mac versus PC" ads, Microsoft has now set out in a new direction- which direction is a bit of a mystery.
This past year I’ve written a lot about power factor correction and my SMB experiences with it. I’m mindful whenever I speak to someone about their utility bills that one size doesn’t fit all. Recently, I spoke with a chicken farmer – go ahead, get a good laugh-- and we discussed her monthly utility bills.
Yesterday Convergys announced the closing of its acquisition of Intervoice. The company is still refining its value proposition and product integration story but Mike Betzer, Convergys’ SVP for Relationship Technology Management and Intervoice’s former CEO Jim Milton spent some time with me yesterday discussing how the two organizations are coming together.
Newest acquisition rumor: A Nortel-focused blog called All About Nortel says IBM is considering a purchase of Nortel, guesstimating that you'd be looking at about a $4 billion deal.
This Microsoft blog has some hints about what the next release of Office Communications Server (OCS) will feature. The focus appears to be on supporting 64-bit operating systems, which aims to reduce the number of servers that an OCS implementation requires.
I don't know if Cisco's PostPath acquisition got too many tongues wagging, but Cisco and Microsoft today released a "progress report" updating last year's Ballmer-Chambers event that sought to settle customers' nerves about possible tension between the 2 companies. Since they share many of the same large customers, it's in Cisco's and Microsoft's interest to keep things patched up, as they acknowledge in today's release:
Cisco's announcement last week that it's acquiring email vendor PostPath for $215 million put the spotlight on a technology that had begun to seem passé (see No Jitter posts here, here, and here. Microsoft accused Cisco of denigrating the importance of email in the past, while Cisco countered that it's always seen email as part of the continuum "from text to TelePresence," as Cisco's Joe Burton said last week.
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