Talk:Microsoft Office Communications Server

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A flame in the guise of an article, methinks...

I'll fix it when I get a moment to do so, but if anyone else cares to do so in the meantime... SiliconCerebrate 16:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Now done. - SiliconCerebrate 13:04, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

The Customer Case Study link is in French. Should this be removed? ~~ Penn Bradly 0330, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Competition, and logging

The only large scale competition is IBM's Sametime component of its Lotus Notes platform, and of course the public instant messaging networks.

Hey, what about Jabber? I work at a company with several offices spread over about 1,500 km, with at least six zones firewalled off from each other. It took just one guy all of about 4 hours to set up an intranet Jabber network, for basically no cost (the server was salvaged from the spare parts room), and it works just fine. Current free servers don't do VoIP or video (set to change soon: see Jingle (protocol)), but otherwise it is not so much "competition" as "blows LCS out of the water". And Jabber isn't the only alternative; check out the comparison of instant messaging clients and the comparison of instant messaging protocols. There are a whole bunch of free systems for establishing your own intranet IM system. Oh, and as for large scale: there are existing ejabberd served Jabber networks which frequently exceed 20,000 simultaneous conversations.

log and archive all message traffic passing through the server, increasingly a legal requirement for many companies.

IANAL but ... I believe this is quite wrong, perhaps dangerously so. I assume the author is refering to the results of the Arthur Anderson decision, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In fact my understanding (based in large part on [1]) is that, other than financial reporting (which I don't suppose anyone does over IM), it is only important that records not be destroyed "corruptly". For things other than financials (and a few other special cases such as EPA reports), destroying them routinely is fine. Never creating them in the first place is fine -- and in fact often a good idea. Legal discovery of a company's message logs is an extremely destructive process (it costs the target so much money that it is often used as a tactic in and of itself; it discloses company IP; and it facilitates "fishing trips"), and thus avoiding their creation is a prime reason why many corporates are avoiding email for unofficial conversations, and moving to IM. Thus this "feature" of LCS is not a legal requirement but a serious legal liability which in many cases may preclude its adoption. -- 144.138.137.82 06:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)