When Microsoft announced its UC product line (Office Communication Server), more than 50 vendors lined up to announce products that support or integrate with it. Alcatel-Lucent was not among them, though Nortel, of course, was. This article reports: "IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified-communications market. IBM is positioning itself as an open-standards alternative to unified-communications offerings from Microsoft, which made a big splash earlier this month in San Francisco when it launched Office Communications Server, the linchpin of its unified-communications strategy." See also How OCS fits into the whole unified communications scene

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