It’s Friday Afternoon and I am heading back to Toronto from Tampa. The Nortel Uberfest has finished and now I have seen the Small Business Communications Server 500 first hand and I am impressed. This is the joint IBM/Nortel offering that was announced this week: From Eweek:
The combined offering will be sold through both IBM and Nortel channel partners. Both IBM and Nortel intend to provide training to IBM’s System i channel partners on how to market and support IP telephony applications, and they will train Nortel partners familiar with VOIP on how to market and support the System i running VOIP applications. The System i is used most often by SMBs (small and midsize businesses).
You may think that it is another SMB PBX, but I am privy to some stuff in the closed sessions that will become available soon that moved me from a good to a wow factor. It is a great move and it is a great product… but you will have to wait for more details (-:
