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“Unified Communications” Still Sucks..

You’ll see a very familiar name quoted in this story. It seems like I’m becoming the poster child for the miserable Unified Communications industry. I fed him three or four ideas for this article: 1) Quantifying the value proposition in real, business case...

FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities

—— Forwarded Message From: Wilson Zehr Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:43:40 -0800 To: ‘Ian Andrew Bell’ Subject: FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities Silicon Valley Reboots The dot-com bust was bad for Wall Street, but it was...

FW: Cisco’s dealings

—— Forwarded Message From: Udhay Shankar N Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:55:51 +0530 To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: Cisco’s dealings FoRKing this as I haven’t seen similar stuff about Cicsco being discussed here....

Bob Cringely Make His Predictions for 2002

I’d say that in past years, 70% accuracy is being rather forgiving, however Bob IS an industry luminary and he does tend to know what he’s talking about. -Ian. —– http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020103.html The 70 Percent Solution...

VoIP Gets a Big Win. (Or Does It?)

IP Telephony may finally be coming of age. For example, take this week’s announcement of a $1.1 billion contract between Sprint and Nortel to replace Sprint’s Plain Old Telephone network with IP-driven switching technologies. While on the surface this...