Will unified communications spell the end of IP Phones?
Will the day ever come when your average white collar worker won’t have a phone at his (or her) desk?
Earlier this week IDC put out a press release entitled “IP Telephony Holds Strong in the Face of Unified Communications (UC) Hype,” highlighting the findings of their 2007 IP Telephony report.
IDC says IP-PBX and IP Phone shipments remained strong in 2007, even with the introduction of desktop unified communications solutions last year from Microsoft and IBM. The absence of a cratering IP-PBX market shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone — even Microsoft doesn’t expect people to rip out their phone systems and replace them with OCS anytime soon. …
