On 31 August 2015 at 07:19, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to see what other hosting firm are doing now that Microsoft has > ended support for the hosted Lync pack. > > Cheers > Ryan >
Been away on holiday so sorry for the delay. I'd say it depends on your business and individual requirements etc. At $dayjob we provide a hosted Lync platform, we have certified Lync engineers/experts in house and we have some 10's of thousands of users so we probably won't be folding it up overnight. It seems that Microsoft probably want to move everyone into "the cloud" and I guess this is part of folding Skype and Lync into one (my desktop Lync client is now "Skype for Business" etc). Either way all of this is going to take a few years. I can't comment on behalf of my employer as I've been away and don't know what their official stand point is but I would guess that if you provide hosted Lync like them, with in house engineers, you probably need to weigh up the business risk and either double their salaries, migrate to "the cloud", or migrate to another solution. We have another unified communications type product that integrates with Active Directory and does voice/voice/desktop colaberation etc etc similar to Lync, and we have some 10's of thousands of subscribers on that too and that platform should scale much better than the Lync platform we have. So I suspect we'd migrate our customers off of the Lync platform on this platform but that would be a long and slow transition of several years at least. Like I said Lync isn't going to fold up overnight. Cheers, James.
