While VoSKY just announced their co-branded solution with Skype, Russell Shaw questions if enterprises will even consider this solution.
While I agree with his solution, I agree for a different reason. I think any IT professional would be absolutely insane to rely on Windows XP in any sort of server capacity, which is essentially what you have to do in order to make this VoSKY solution work. Like IT professionals want another XP machine to have to keep patched and, hopefully, keep viruses off of. In theory that should be much easier provided nobody actually uses that PC, but still. It's an unclean solution.
The solution will only be interesting to businesses-assuming they get over their general aversion to Skype-if and only if they can eliminate the Windows PC from the equation.
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Absolutely agree with Russell. I also believe that a Microsoft server for RT communications is crazy. Linux is the way to go. MS won’t cut it and I really wonder how many IT heads will buy a UC solution from MS. Only those that don’t know Linux.
Which based on what I’ve seen, is quite a number of IT shops, actually.
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