Microsoft and Siemens Collaborate to Usher in New Era of Unified Communications: "Siemens Communications Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced the expansion of global collaborative efforts to advance the transformation of telephony, audio-, video- and web conferencing, instant messaging, and e-mail into a single unified communications platform. Cooperation between the two companies is rooted in a shared vision for unified communications that is people-centric, breaks down silos between different forms of communications systems, and expands on ongoing efforts by the two companies to integrate technologies around Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server."
Interesting that this news comes about a week after Siemens announces plans to sell key parts of its telecommunications business, e.g., quoting from a 2006/06/20 WSJ article:
"On the heels of an agreement to combine its telecommunications-equipment business with that of Nokia Corp., Siemens AG said it is in talks to sell a majority stake in its enterprise unit, which supplies packages of telecom gear and services to corporate customers."
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