Mike Gotta: Did Microsoft Win Best In Showcase At Lotusphere?

Funny conclusion …

… IBM announced that iscoord had won the 2006 "Best in Showcase" Award at Lotusphere 2006 with their integration of IP Telephony and VoIP technology into applications built around IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Workplace and IBM Workplace Client. …

… The ironic part of the iiscoord press release was that the core underlying technology, e-phone, is from media-streams, a company acquired by Microsoft (see press release). Now I’m sure that what ultimately makes this a very innovative solution is the application itself and not e-phone per se, it just happens to be built on top of some technology from Microsoft. But I have to admit that I thought it was funny in an analyst-kind-of-way…


[Via Collaborative Thinking]