Office Communications Server 'R2' targets PBXes

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Microsoft delivered the latest version of its unified communications platform on Tuesday, a release that makes progress towards its goal of integrating telephony and instant messaging features on the same commodity servers.

The software titan unveiled Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 in mid-October at the VoiceCon conference in Amsterdam, saying at the time that it would be ready for sale this month.

However, despite an on-time arrival, there's plenty of work that remains to be done.