Mike Gotta is one of the fiercest yet knowledgeable analysts around all things 2.0. Here’s what he had to say regarding ‘presence’, a key component in the ESME story:

Larger vendors such as IBM would have to break from its UC-centric thinking around presence as would Microsoft. For Microsoft however this type of move is almost unimaginable given the centricity of OCS around SIP/SIMPLE and Microsoft’s reluctance to integrate and interoperate with other vendors on a level playing field when it comes to presence. Oracle remains a dark horse as does SAP, although ESME is a nice start (congrats BTW to the people involved in ESME and to Dennis Howlett who seems to be the proud mother at the moment).

BTW – blushing wildly at last statement. Never seen myself as ‘mother’ before.

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