VoiceCon 2009: BoT (Best of Twitter)

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pa href=http://www.fiercevoip.com/twitterBoT (Best of Twitter) from the FierceVoIP feed/a/p ul class=unIndentedList liShoreTel gets VoiceCon hat trick- Wins Best of VoiceCon award for third time in row. (Vendors were serious about winning this award...) /li /ul ul class=unIndentedList liNEC uses back to pat (single point of contact) rather than Verizon's more visceral Throat to choke /li /ul ul class=unIndentedList liNEC -- advising companies to be cloud ready; disaster recovery looking to be The App for cloud computing. /li /ul ul class=unIndentedList liBroadvox and Panasonic have a deal (not yet announced). Broadvox will reach out to/work with about 1,000 Panasonic phone dealers /li /ul pa href=http://www.fiercevoip.com/twitterTwittering at Microsoft's morning VoiceCon keynote on April 1/a/p ul class=unIndentedList liComment on Microsoft keynote by carrier Very aggressive for OCS as a PBX replacement solution; E911 amp; survivability NOT generally available; won't be in until mid-2010 /li liMicrosoft announces 5 day free trial of UC a href=https://r2.uctrial.com/https://r2.uctrial.com/a for both PC and Mac... /li liMicrosoft doing demo of Communicator Web Access ... on a Mac. People laugh /li liMicrosoft Vice President Pall: Last telephony innovation move from dial to touch tone; People still stuck in 3x4 keypad today /li liSprint - saving $6M/year using Microsoft OCS, power consumption significant going down as they shut down 500 legacy PBXes /li liMicrosoft VP Pall rating about business as usual problem, evils of desktop IP phone, move to softphone, customers up BNSF railroad, Sprint /li liSwissCom doing testimonial for OCS, people doing oooh at federation capabilities of OCS /li liMicrosoft VP @ VoiceCon: Position yourself with the rebound once the recession lifts (with MS Software, of course) /li liMicrosoft VP at VoiceCon - Preaching cost-savings, swipe at Cisco for expense, talking about how lawyers love OCS /li /ul

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