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“As a systems integration firm and Microsoft Gold Partner, I continue to be amazed by the astonishing number of organizations who’ve made a major investment in the Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite and have yet to deploy the software. Included in this suite, are OCS 2007, SharePoint, Exchange 2007, MOM, Forefront, and Windows Rights Management enterprise software. To prove my point, over 19 Million Office Communication 2007 CALS have been sold within the last 12 months. Less than 5% of these licenses have been deployed. When you compare this deployment statistic to purchases of other competitive software solutions (Oracle, SAP, Symantec etc…) it seems incomprehensible these licenses are just collecting dust. Of course, since our company has a laser focus on messaging and unified communications, we have a bias and a desire to see clients begin deployment of MS Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007 with a greater sense of urgency. It appears such a waste of IT dollars to ignore the value of this software investment. Moreover, once you use the software applications in your own business environment, you gain an intrinsic appreciation on how they enrich the communications and collaboration within your company. As with the Internet, you wonder how you ever did without Unified Communications once you begin to exploit its value.” source...