Microsoft to reach out to IBM, Cisco on interoperability
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to reach out and work more closely with IBM and Cisco Systems on the interoperability front, as this is what its customers have told the software maker they want.
Specifically, these moves follow feedback from members of Microsoft's Interoperability Executive Customer Council, which was established in June 2006 to solicit input from enterprise-level customers about exactly what they wanted from Microsoft.
While the company expected to get a lot of feedback, some critical, and suggestions about what to do going forward, said Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for the Server and Tools division, executives have been surprised by the level of dialogue and the issues that have been raised and, in some cases, already addressed. Muglia hosts the council meeting at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., every six months.