Lotus Foundations with PBX! Watch out Microsoft!

Have you realized the true potential of Lotus Foundations? Check out this discussion on Lotus Foundations User Group on linkedin. This is just too good to pass up.

Brian Connelly of Westfield Group writes,

I was able to load TrixboxCE into a virtual partition on my Lotus Foundations server; what’s more it connected with my ISTP (Internet Service Telephony Provider) without incident. So with enough hardware horse power I could have a full feature PBX on my Lotus Foundations Server along with everything else IBM provides. Voice mail, music on hold, integrated voice response, unlimited extensions, voice mail – email integration, multiple trunks, Ring groups, call queues, conference bridging, follow me, web access to voice mail the list goes on and on. So I think we can say MS Communications Server is in deep trouble as well.

There are a number of software PBX servers on the market and several VMWare implementations; I used Trixbox because I am familiar with it.

MS Windows made system administration easy but with mind numbing simplicity. As if they were going to train chimps to do system administration. While Lotus Foundations makes Domino and basic firewall, backup, email, web server, VPN and DNS one click easy they also included the capability to extend the system with a wide array of non-proprietary systems.

This is starting to look like System Administration can fun as well as easy! Lookout MS, IBM brought the fun back to easy!