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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Johann's Unified Communications : aspect</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/aspect/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: aspect</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Getting Rid of Your PBX Can Be Liberating</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2009/06/23/getting-rid-of-your-pbx-can-be-liberating.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:42:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3257615</guid><dc:creator>jkruse</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/comments/3257615.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3257615</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3257615</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Jamie Ryan, CIO at Aspect, has written a great post about the benefits of replacing your legacy PBX or IP-PBX with Office Communications Server 2007 R2.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When I tell people that &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aspect.com/newsitems/NewsRelease_Aspect_Successfully_Deploys_OCS_at_HQ"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aspect&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; is the in the midst of a &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; rollout, they often ask me if we are really able to live without our &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tech-faq.com/pbx.shtml"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PBX’s&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;. Believe it or not, many times they look wistful when they ask the question. It’s almost like they equate &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.voipreview.org/Business_Telephone_Systems/hosted_pbx_compared.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;PBXs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; with an old friend who is moving to a far off land and will be sorely missed. My answer is always the same. I’m actually happy to be rid of my PBXs. We had too many - from too many different vendors. They were not integrated. And, they were expensive to manage. Plus, technology has come so far in recent years – why would I stay with the old, when the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.phoneplusmag.com/hotnews/microsoft-ocs-pbx-hosted-voip-killer.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; is here and &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.von.com/news/microsoft-ocs-2007-killing-the-pbx-softly.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read it at &lt;a href="http://blogs.aspect.com/2009/06/21/getting-rid-of-your-pbx-can-be-liberating/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://blogs.aspect.com/2009/06/21/getting-rid-of-your-pbx-can-be-liberating/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3257615" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/uc/default.aspx">uc</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/ocs/default.aspx">ocs</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/pbx/default.aspx">pbx</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/r2/default.aspx">r2</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/aspect/default.aspx">aspect</category></item></channel></rss>