GotSpeech is adding new forums
When I laid out my Road-map for the Future recently I hinted that there would be changes coming to GotSpeech. If you visit our forums page you will see the first change - we've added a Live Communications Serve 2005 (LCS).
You have hear that Microsoft will be releasing Speech Server 2007 as part of Office Communication Server (OCS) next summer. Well, OCS is the next incarnation of Live Communications Server and it will be just one component of Microsoft's Unified Communications solution. There are several other components that will make up the UC platform and I suggest you start reading up on each of the new technologies.
There is a lot of confusion about Unified Communications as other vendors such as Avaya and Cisco have similar or competing products (with similar names). With so much new technology (not to mention hype) what is a developer to do? We all love Speech Server but we can't ignore these emerging technologies.
Where do we go? What do we learn? How will this affect our careers? Will we get left behind? Can we leverage our knowledge of Speech Server and incorporate it into all this new stuff?
Well, GotSpeech is getting involved to help clear up your questions. We want to help you cut through all of the confusion so that you won't be left behind when UC becomes a reality. We also want to evangelise Unified Communications and help you the technical community take advantage of it.
We are not abandoning our Speech Server roots but our new goal is to help you fit your Speech Server experience into the bigger picture of Unified Communications. That is why we are starting the Live Communications Server forum and we will add forums for the other components of Unified Communications over the coming months. We will even be adding one for Speech Server 2007 when the time is right (i.e. as soon as Microsoft allows).
So tell all of your friends and help spread the news about the new forum.