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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 03 November 2005 |
Microsoft has made its second IP Telephony acquisition in as many months with the announcement that hit will acquire Swiss company media-streams.com AG.
The Zurich-based company specialises in VoIP enabled applications which Microsoft believes will accelerate its own unified communications vision.
Microsoft wants to bring together various modes of communication (e-mail; instant messaging; short message service; voice/telephony; and audio, video and Web conferencing) into a unified communications platform. It already has a server side solution Live Communications server and the technology, skills and intellectual property media-streams.com AG can bring to bear will accelerate client-side development.
“We are in lock-step with Microsoft’s vision of bringing voice and data collaboration together, and we have built our business around delivering enhanced real-time communications for enterprise and small to midsize customers,” said Erich Gebhardt, CEO of media-streams.com, now a subsidiary of Microsoft. “We’re excited to join Microsoft’s Real-Time Collaboration Group and focus our technologies and people on delivering Microsoft’s vision for unified communications to dramatically improve collaboration.”
“Integrating voice communications with the rich collaboration capabilities of the Microsoft Office System will enable exciting new collaboration scenarios that will improve individual and team collaboration,” said Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft. “media-streams.com’s VoIP technology will become available as part of the Real-Time Collaboration platform from Microsoft, significantly enhancing the value delivered to customers and opportunities for partners. The acquisition accelerates our ability to deliver on our vision of unified communications.”
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