Paula Musich

Partners BMC Software and Tripwire on March 27 will get a little closer when they elevate their technology partnership and reseller agreement for Tripwires compliance auditing software to a strategic partnership. Tripwire, as a strategic partner to the Business Service Management provider, will release its integration between its new release of Tripwire Enterprise (6.0) and […]

Eleven major network, systems and applications providers on March 22 submitted a specification to the World Wide Web Consortium designed to advance interoperability between management tools. The group, consisting of BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA, Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, delivered the Service Modeling Language specification they had honed […]

San Jose, Calif.—Open-source IP Telephony provider Digium on March 21 provided a David answer to Microsofts Goliath in launching back-to-back phone systems for small and midsize businesses. Both vendors chose the VON 2007 conference to introduce competing phone system appliances with a range of functions, including an IP PBX, interactive voice response, messaging and automatic […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The VON 2007 conference here offered up visions of the next big opportunities for next generation communication over IP, and IP TV led the list. In the latest iteration of the VON show, Pulver Media Chairman Jeff Pulver shone the spotlight on IP TV with a new Video on the Net conference within […]

San Jose, Calif.—Microsoft at the VON 07 conference demonstrated a brand new phone system for small business that officials say overcomes the cost and complexity issues of traditional PBXes. Microsoft teamed up with three hardware OEMs to deliver an offering which combines the functions of an IP PBX, Integrated Voice Response System and Messaging in […]

Cisco Systems tried to build momentum behind its high-end TelePresence video conferencing system at CeBIT on March 16 by building out features and announcing the first public service based on its TelePresence technology. Cisco added two key features designed to broaden the appeal of the life-like conferencing system by allowing virtual meetings in several locations […]

Cisco Systems planned $2.9 billion acquisition of leading Web conferencing provider Webex sets up a complex and interesting dance between itself and Microsoft as both vendors work through the need to both cooperate and compete in the same customer accounts. Cisco will compete directly with Microsoft in the Web conferencing and shared applications market, where […]

In a departure from its go-to-market strategy for management software, Microsoft on March 13 said that it will OEM its Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 software to application delivery controller vendor F5 Networks. The management software, formerly called Microsoft Operations Manager, or MOM, will form the foundation for a new management appliance F5 Networks intends […]

Microsoft, as expected, on March 14 announced its intent to acquire voice-search platform provider Tellme Networks as part of a broad-ranging effort to use voice technology as an interface for accessing information and services. “We see voice and speech recognition as way to improve interaction with productivity software. Last week at VoiceCon we said we […]

If the rumors prove true, Microsofts next big push in the area of Unified Communications could involve voice search. Microsoft is rumored to be in talks to acquire privately held Tellme Networks, which markets a platform based on the open standards-based VoiceXML 2.0 specification. The standard describes how to build voice applications that provide access […]