I’m am not a big fan of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant reports, even though they are well written and extremely credible analysis. However, fellow Lyncheads we can not ignore that in traditional MSFT continuous improvement style that everyone's favorite "red headed step child" is taking the lead!
- + Alcatel-Lucent have moved up from “challenging” to “leading”
- + Siemens have moved up from “visionaries” to “leading”
- + Hauwei Technologies are new on the UC scene (just when you though these guys only manufactured 3G dongles?!?)
- + Digium (the folks that make Asterisk) have at long last entered the quadrant, specifically within the niche players market
- - Interactive Intelligence have dropped from “visionaries” to “niche players”
- - IBM have been overtaken by NEC
- - SAP have dropped off all together
Not addressed completely, in the report is the issue of free/almostfree VoIP services become increasingly attractive to corporations and their impact of future Lync "Wave 15" product design.
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Lync for Window7Phone, Android & iPhone.
MS confirmed Mango Windows Phone 7 handsets would sport a front facing camera as well asSkype integration and a mobile Lync client. The confirmation came via the TechEd event in New Zealand, where two Microsoft employees mentioned that Microsoft's Lync VoIP client also be available on other mobile platforms, including iOS, Android and Symbian. But the Lync client would be first available on the soon to be launched Mango Windows Mobile 7 software.
