On Jan 30, 2008 4:12 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 1/30/08, Matthew Nuzum <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Actually, its a pretty slick looking phone system. Its called Microsoft<br>> Response Point. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint/" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint/</a><br>
<br></div>I think that this is going to be a challenge for Cisco, especially in<br>the small business market, if only because there are so many sheep out<br>there that blindly buy whatever Microsoft is selling.<br><br>However, I think that Cisco is going to keep the lead in the higher<br>
end markets, partly because they are already there, but most<br>enterprises aren't going to risk one of their most important tools to<br>a "1.0" product.The main problems that I can see with voice control like they show in the video:<br>
</blockquote><div> <br></div><div>I used some product a few years ago (around 2000) that I think had genie in the name. It was a USB based phone and the software ran on the PC. It worked nice and integrated with outlook. The company went belly up. Since then I stay away from version 1.0 hardware.<br>
<br>This system uses a small server that has no gui, everything is done from a PC on the same network. It apparently runs some type of Windows but it doesn't run on a standard PC. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
1) What if you have 10,000 employees and there's 10 "John Smith"s?<br></blockquote><div><br>Its for small offices. Same market as SBS so likely targeting < 50 users and most likely < 20 users.<br></div>
</div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode