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Microsoft Lync: Market impact

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Primarily an enterprise presence and eportlinker.com announces that
instant messaging engine which displaced a new market research report is
Exchange Instant Messaging, LCS was available in its catalogue: Microsoft
designed and positioned as complimen- Lync: Market Impact and Growth Potential.
tary and a value-add not only for other Transformational Force or a
Microsoft platforms, including Active Market Byproduct
Directory, SQL, Exchange and more, but
also for third-party communications plat- Microsoft’s portfolio development and
forms such as private branch exchanges strategic direction have been in line with
(PBX) and conferencing platforms.
the greater momentum in the evolution of the enterprise communications industry.
More important, the company has driven
certain key aspects of this evolutionary
Read the rest of the story at process. This report evaluates the current
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competitive position of Microsoft Lync
and discusses where Lync-based solutions
will stand in coming years. The study also
assesses the impact of Microsoft Lync on
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7 VIP or Virtual Service was the mini- The most cost-effective, easiest to provision and
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2013 these requirements have been reduced
allowing for either a Layer 4 or Layer
7 VIP depending upon the deployment.
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have remained predominantly unchanged.
Leveraging the high-availability func-
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