VoiceCon 2009: BoT (Best of Twitter)

BoT (Best of Twitter) from the FierceVoIP feed

• ShoreTel gets VoiceCon hat trick- Wins "Best of VoiceCon" award for third time in row. (Vendors were serious about winning this award...)

• NEC uses "back to pat" (single point of contact) rather than Verizon's more visceral "Throat to choke"

• NEC -- advising companies to be "cloud ready"; disaster recovery looking to be The App for cloud computing.

• Broadvox and Panasonic have a deal (not yet announced). Broadvox will reach out to/work with about 1,000 Panasonic phone dealers

Twittering at Microsoft's morning VoiceCon keynote on April 1

• Comment on Microsoft keynote by carrier "Very aggressive" for OCS as a PBX replacement solution; E911 & survivability NOT generally available; won't be in until mid-2010
• Microsoft announces 5 day free trial of UC https://r2.uctrial.com "for both PC and Mac..."
• Microsoft doing demo of Communicator Web Access ... on a Mac. People laugh
• Microsoft Vice President Pall: Last telephony innovation move from dial to touch tone; "People still stuck in 3x4 keypad" today
• Sprint - saving $6M/year using Microsoft OCS, power consumption significant going down as they shut down 500 legacy PBXes
• Microsoft VP Pall rating about "business as usual" problem, evils of desktop IP phone, move to softphone, customers up BNSF railroad, Sprint
• SwissCom doing testimonial for OCS, people doing "oooh" at federation capabilities of OCS
• Microsoft VP @ VoiceCon: Position yourself with the rebound once the recession lifts (with MS Software, of course)
• Microsoft VP at VoiceCon - Preaching cost-savings, swipe at Cisco for expense, talking about how lawyers love OCS