Software developer Unison has launched what it claims is the world's first fully-unified communications suite based on Linux.
Announced at CeBIT, the suite (also simply called Unison) combines IP telephony, e-mail and instant messaging with diary, address book and presence capabilities, all in a single Linux server. It is available free as a public beta.
"You can get all these elements separately on Linux, but this is the first time they have all been in one server," said Rurik Bradbury, Unison's chief marketing officer. Other unified communications (UC) schemes, such as Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) can require three or more servers to do the same thing, he added.
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