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Thursday, August 16, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: VoIP: So many, so mad and not even at Microsoft

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

* VoIP: So many, so mad and not even at Microsoft
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* The profit center that is IT

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VOIP: SO MANY, SO MAD AND NOT EVEN AT MICROSOFT

Notes from the field: The horror, the horror of VoIP. "It's not just
TeleBlend. Packet8, Allo.com, and Comcast also get dinged by customers
who can't get them to provide decent VoIP or customer service," Cringe
reports in Eat packets, VoIP boy. Sure, it can save customers a few
bucks, but VoIP is turning out to be the mainfestation of lousy
communications. "I've never seen so many Cringesters so p**sed off at a
company whose name isn't Microsoft." Columnist's corner: Exchange 2007
Service Pack 1, in the words of Olvier Rist, "adds a bunch of new
goodies to your Exchange setup."... ...

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Citrix buys XenSource, NSA spying program argued in court, MS and Xandros
expand licensing pact, and more LISTEN!... ...

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THE PROFIT CENTER THAT IS IT

Best of the blogs: Here's one technology professionals don't see so
often: IT serving as a profit center and, mind you, not merely an
expense unit. "It looks great in the PowerPoint, and it generally works
the way so many PowerPoint concepts work -- perfectly, except for the
unintended but easily predicted consequences," Lewis writes. Transfer
that to the real world of back offices and datacenters, though, and it's
not quite that easy. "It isn't all that different from trying to cure a
disease by feeding poison to the patient." Hardware: Call it a
"mainframe on-a-rack." Tom Yager does just... ...

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