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CMP’s Channelweb reports;
The head honchos from Microsoft and Cisco spent Monday playing up the collaborative nature of their relationship, particularly as it relates to unified communications, which describes integration of instant messaging, voice, and videoconferencing technologies within a single product.
But in a Tuesday keynote at Voicecon Fall 2007 in San Francisco, Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president for Microsoft’s Realtime Collaboration Group, dispensed with the niceties and said Microsoft is clearly better positioned in the market.
Noting that Gartner had moved Cisco from the ‘leaders’ to the ‘challengers’ category in its latest Magic Quadrant for unified communications, Singh took a thinly veiled swipe at Cisco CEO John Chambers, who earlier this year claimed that his company has a three year lead over Microsoft in the unified communications space.
"Sometimes — and I wont mention names — you can have a three year lead in the wrong direction," said Pall, who repeatedly emphasized the superiority of Microsoft’s software based approach to unified communications.