Microsoft, Polycom team on collaboration products
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Polycom have struck a multi-year agreement to link Microsoft's Office Live Communications Server with Polycom's conferencing products, the companies plan to announce Tuesday. Microsoft hopes the connection will spur sales of Live Communications Server, an enterprise instant messaging and "presence" product, while Polycom is keen to sell more desktop video conferencing hardware, representatives from both companies said.
With Live Communications Server, companies can run their own enterprise instant messaging network. The product is capable of determining whether a user is online and available for communication in Office applications and can extend this "presence" information to other applications.