Always the pesimist, I had to swallow hard when I read the quote from
the Telus rep.
"By selecting Octel's state-of-the-art technology, we can create new and enhanced services specifically designed to meet the demands of our market."
The Sierra is a 386 based system, with proprietary HW and SW. It is severly limited in capacity, and has absolutely no future whatsoever. Octel has all but admitted this in what little IMA info that has been made public. IMA is a complete departure from Sierra, with no appearent upgrade path. To apply the term "state-of-the-art" to the nearly 10 year Sierra old platform, is absolutely ridiculous. Obviously, Telus is a little backwards, if they think that "sending pre-scheduled voice greetings or group messages to a pre-set list" would even rate mention. These generic VM features have been available for 10+ years on a plethora of platforms. And Octel adds to this "The addition of voice mail and applications, such as sending group voice messages to a pre-programmed list, illustrates the voice messaging maturity of the Canadian market,". Which is liike saying the addition of 286 DOS PC's illustrates the maturity of XYZ's technology. Just a little ridiculous.
Octel does have some good technology and platforms. Sierra, however, is a dead-end with a very short life left. I suppose it is good for Octel that they are still sellling Sierras, but as a VM customer, I could not imagine investing millions of dollars in a platform that has little to no future.
On the positive side, I noticed that they have appearantly shipped the Sierra fix.
Disclaimer: I tend to be a bit negative with regards to Octel. |
