http://blogs.technet.com/markdea/archive/2007/08/14/what-happens-when-communications-aren-t-unified.aspxThere are a number of blogs I follow (via RSS of course) and the new 'blogger on the block' is Maren Bennette who has years of experience in the telecoms industry and has certainly seen and written about many technologies that have come and gone. Theen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/markdea/archive/2007/08/14/what-happens-when-communications-aren-t-unified.aspx#1767791Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:22:04 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1767791matt lambert<P>Mark!</P> <P>your number one point is that people should buy all of their technology from Microsoft?</P> <P>You do surprise me </P> <P>Matt</P>http://blogs.technet.com/markdea/archive/2007/08/14/what-happens-when-communications-aren-t-unified.aspx#1789442Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:12:41 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1789442markdea<p>I think my point was more that if you it from one vendor it is going to work better together, &nbsp;which I think would be obvious to most people.</p> <p>That said, &nbsp;there are times when you might not want or be able to get all you need from one vendor.</p> <p>I think its a matter of UC vendors trying to interoperate while making sure it doesnt affect their ability to continuously develop their own product(s) at their own pace.</p>