Jim Van Meggelen is frustrated with silo-thinking. In his Saturday posting Will Any Visionary Carriers Please Step Forward, he bemoans the lack of integration between PBX’s and carriers, and, by implication, between the carriers themselves.
We’re waiting for Godot Voice 2.0, baby!
Seemingly granting that the carriers can actually see the future, Andy Abramson comments that they are buying what’s safe. Safe, yes, but more importantly, protectable inside the carrier’s walled garden. Open networks, like those championed by AOL’s Ragui Kamel, and open technology solutions like David Beckemeyer’s PhoneGnome, are slowly eroding that protection.
Perhaps, as Jim suggests, it will take a government or a large corporation to insist that this integration happens, or perhaps it will be the work of visionaries like Ragui Kamel and David Beckemeyer. Ultimately, however, the walls will come down.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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