This is more of a collaboration tool than a conferencing tool, but this combined with Live Messenger has gotten some good traction with me.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.utilityspotlight.aspx -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Unified Communications So, there are a lot of options, but those options are expensive, just not expensive in terms of licensing costs. Jabber for in house only (block to the Internet) You could set up your own IRC server in house ( I am not sure if Jabber will do persistent 'group' chat like IRC does with channel bots ) Asterix has some variants that you could do some odd stuff with. There are not really any good 'free' conferencing servers (video) out there and definitely nothing that is integrated (please let me know if you find something I missed, I have a group of folks that could benefit). All of this requires in house expertise and conflicting resources and documentation from the various projects. So, as long as your time is available and having your support be dependent on the community around the project you use, you could replicate OCS with Open Source stuff. That's the trade off. Huge learning curve no matter which way you go. Steven On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Kevin Lundy <klu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, if you are going to use some of those features, OCS can come in > at a compelling price. But you are going to pay for them all up > front. > > Sounds like you need to do a requirements analysis. > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Cameron Cooper <ccoo...@aurico.com> wrote: >> We would probably start out with IM and then add addition features as >> time went... conferencing, etc... >> >> _______________________________ >> Cameron Cooper >> IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified >> Aurico Reports, Inc >> Phone: 847-890-4021 Fax: 847-255-1896 >> ccoo...@aurico.com >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
