I took a look at this slide show and saw a lot that I like ... this level of integration between voice and email has been along time coming and I think it will eventually sell very well ... my initial reaction is, I WANT IT NOW ... we use an Exchange 2003 server in our own shop ... I have for some time considered moving to a Linux based platform for our Email as I believe it to be less costly/complex to manage and maintain ... And I really do not like the Active Directory model that Exchange relies on ... however, when this level of functionality becomes available in Exchange, I will have something new to consider in the equation ... I am not a big fan of Exchange ... I have installed and supported this system for many years and have developed something of a love/hate relationship with it ... however, if it becomes clear that I could only get these features with Exchange, I would give serious consideration to buying my Exchange server a box of candy and some flowers ... the questions I would like to see answers to are these ... where is the controlling interface for this integration ??? is it at the mail server ??? is it at the voice server ??? is it at the web client ??? or is it a combination of all of the above ??? if you have limited resources, where do you allocate them to most efficiently achieve the goal ??? is there a design concept that would permit this level of integration to be implemented using my choice of email server and client in combination with Asterisk ??? or am I doomed to maintaining a relationship with an 800 gorilla from Redmond ??? I would be very cautious about investing effort in an implementation that was Microsoft specific as the Microsoft API's have a history of being a moving target that only the chosen few can hit ... I think that all the individual pieces of what I saw in this slide show are available NOW as open source components ... it looks to me like the big challenge here is integrating all the pieces so they all work together to provide the desired functionality ... am I wrong about this analysis ??? G.Hendershot
________________________________ From: Curt Shaffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:08 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in earnestnextyear, says Ballmer Take a look at OVA.. mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/exchange/2007/Phone_Based_User_Experience_With_Out look_Voice_Access_300k.wmv ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Robar Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:13 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in earnest nextyear, says Ballmer Unified messaging would be nice. Not just having my VM's e-mailed to me, but to be able to manage them from with Outlook (or any other mail client for that matter) would be nice. I picture it sort of like an IMAP mailbox, and the mail client just has some kind of functionality to recognize that the message is a VM and not a mail message (so it could display length, date/time received, CID, and provide a "play" button). Just my two cents. Alex On 11/7/06, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/international/asia/1 5944981.htm There's not much in the article so only click through if super interested but I'm curious and looking for people's opinions. What application integration would you like to see between MS (either Office or other aspects of the vista/xp OS) and Asterisk. Apart from dial from outlook and number pop I'm kind of curious what other functionality there is to be developed (I'd also like to see drop and drag from outlook into conference calls. What would you like to see in asterisk, if we get some solid responses we'll see about organizing some bounties to get it developed. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users> -- Alex Robar [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
