Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft
PC World | at | by Mike
If Microsoft is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along.
Microsoft was set to announce on Tuesday at Interop that 12 of the biggest names in business communications, including Cisco Systems Inc., Avaya Inc., and Alcatel-Lucent SA, have pledged support for an Office Communications Server 2007 interoperability specification. That means the companies' office phone systems and gateways will be able to work with OCS 2007 through their native signaling systems, said Zig Serafin, general manager of Microsoft's unified communications business. Many will achieve this by the end of the year, he added.