I can remember dealing with clients that were struggling with over 100 Lotus Notes/Domino servers just to keep basic collaboration and email up and running… These same clients were installing 40Meg thick clients to access the proprietary dinosaurs that were increasingly strangling their IT departments and slowing response to business needs. Sad, scary stories that led to many career “changes” in those organizations. Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services provides messaging, collaboration, customizable workspaces and infrastructure while promising:
“Microsoft® Online Services is built on the pillars of streamlined communication, simplified IT management, and business-class security and reliability. Each pillar supports the overall value that customers get: rich, flexible, reliable, and secure online communication and collaboration services that simplify IT management and support enhanced user productivity and business agility.
We’re ready to support your customers, wherever they want to take their business. Our stable and dedicated data center infrastructure can scale dynamically to meet their additional capacity requirements.” — Microsoft.
Very intriguing future for us all…. Is BPOS the new Web 2.0 Operating system? This is where I intend to move my business back end so that my current servers can be re-deployed for component and hosted complimentary web service offerings. Over the next few months I will post on our progress in this move. Stay tuned.
