With New Year's day approaching fast it is the time of the year to reflect back on all we accomplished in 2011 and it is also the time to set new goals.
2011 was an important and critical year for sipXecs / openUC. We have proven that we reached critical mass and fulfill the requirements for both small and large enterprise communications and collaboration systems. We crossed the chasm and deliver value to IT organizations wanting a software application and not a legacy system. We took scalability way beyond small enterprise and created a robust system that can be deployed as a geographically distributed cluster, and we moved our solution into the cloud leveraging Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Our SSOA architecture has proven superior not only compared to legacy systems, but also compared to more recent designs from e.g. Microsoft and Cisco. As one CIO of a large organization put it: "Rebuilding a large Cisco CM cluster takes months of planning and work and with openUC we have done it in an afternoon", and another one: "Building a geographically distributed load-sharing cluster is simply not possible with Microsoft Lync, but works easily with openUC". The year 2012 looks like an equally interesting year in the making. Our 4.6 release will come out introducing phase 2 of the SSOA implementation with many new components, the transition to MongoDB, as well as significantly improved cluster and media management. We will also release additional clients for both mobile and desktop applications, and we will advance our efforts to integrate with other applications, including email/calendar and CRM applications. 2012 is the year when the Web will learn how to real-time communicate directly in a browser and sipXecs / openUC are playing a key role in that. Without you, our developers and users, this effort would not have been possible. I wanted to thank you for all your enthusiasm, interests, and support. Your contributions have made sipXecs / openUC the leading open source unified communications and collaboration solution. We should all be proud of this. As you know in the first week of March we are holding our first users conference CoLab in Denver, Colorado at Colorado State University. This is your chance to meet all the developers and get the latest and greatest information. I hope you can all come and we are looking forward to meeting face-to-face and exchange ideas. Happy New Year --martin
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