Making sense of Office Communications Server and Response Point
With the recent Response Point announcement, we’ve received some questions about the relationship between this offering, the upcoming Office Communications 2007 release, and Microsoft’s overall unified communications strategy.
Both Office Communications Server 2007 and Response Point provide voice capabilities over IP and either enhance or replace traditional phone systems. The products share a common foundation of using a software based foundation to bring innovative capabilities and value to voice and telephony applications. The two products, however, address very different customer segments and usage scenarios and therefore are quite different in their implementation and scope.