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by Margie Semilof, Senior News Writer
What kind of collaborative applications are making their way into your enterprise and how are you managing them? There seems to be plenty of demand for instant messaging, Web conferencing and teamware. Some of these technologies are coming through the back door -- end users are signing up for IM services, and business teams that have employees working across multiple continents are installing collaborative packages on their own. They all want IT support, after the fact.
In some ways, Microsoft has a communications and collaborative software strategy, not unlike the hodgepodge of stuff going on within the enterprise. There is the SharePoint Portal Server software that has collaborative features to help teams communicate, Microsoft also owns a 25% stake in Groove Networks, which was founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes. Groove makes client-based collaborative software that helps work groups cross organizational boundaries.
Microsoft's Real Time Communications Server (RTC) will ship after .NET Server; it will support the Session Interface Protocol (SIP). Microsoft also has NetMeeting, a stand-alone peer-to-peer tool that is being phased into a conferencing server. There are server mediation features from the Exchange Web Conferencing Server. There is also instant messaging, which is integrated into Exchange 2000, and then there is Exchange and Outlook.
Microsoft is trying to pull it together into a cohesive plan, but it's not so easy to do considering it's still unclear what applications will stick with customers. So which next generation communications or collaborative services are most important to your corporate enterprise, and how would you like to see them delivered?
Share your thoughts with me. You can e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
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