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To: The Phoenix who wrote (35463)	10/14/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: gfr fan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

<<As for CSCO and MSFT. I believe they are Strategic Partners and have been working closely together for ages. They are in bed together on ActiveDirectory which is key to network deployment and resource management and key to Microsoft's strategy to get into service provider environments. In fact if you look at Win2000 it is 90% directory and Microsoft can not risk the Cisco relationship if this strategy is to suceed.>> I'd do some more investigating here. How do you think MSFT views Cisco's attempts to populate IOS as a home networking standard? Palm spunoff can now go compete against MSFT, and COMS is now unencumbered to work with those who view CSCO as a threat.

To: The Phoenix who wrote (35463)	11/1/1999 2:39:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

As for enterprise I should point out that the NBX is based on NT which only uses the TAPI API which is very weak and doesn't support media control - only call control. According to this review: ctimag.com NBX 100 system itself is based on Unix. It seems that the only API it supports right now is TAPI, but my guess is that if there is demand, they can add others. Some of the administrative tasks have to be done on a Windows PC, but show me an "enterprise" that doesn't have one of those available. The review seems positive. But I think Cisco CallManager will be a tough competitor, and there is another company shoretel.com that seems to be in the same business. Joe