by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: A Marriage of Convenience

analysis
Oct 16, 20072 mins

Unified communications get a boost from a big backer, your web site is probably at risk, and there's a new iPhone lawsuit that has nothing to do with software updates. All in all, it's an exciting Tuesday here in the Test Center. New Microsoft OCS: Brian Chee and Oliver Risk took a long, hard look at Microsoft OCS and found that Office Communication Server -- linked to Exchange Server -- make for a formidable co

Unified communications get a boost from a big backer, your web site is probably at risk, and there’s a new iPhone lawsuit that has nothing to do with software updates. All in all, it’s an exciting Tuesday here in the Test Center.

New Microsoft OCS: Brian Chee and Oliver Risk took a long, hard look at Microsoft OCS and found that Office Communication Server — linked to Exchange Server — make for a formidable communications platform. Unfortunately, the deployment hurdle (in both money and effort) is high, too, but may well be worthwhile if you need to have a single, common in-box for all your corporate communications.

Your Web Site is Open: Matt Hines has been reading again, and this time the story is as scary as anything by Steven King. According to the latest White Hat study, 90% of web sites are open to hacker attacks. You’ll want to read Matt’s blog, but don’t take too long — your web site probably needs some attention. Now.

Toxic iPhone?: According to Greenpeace, your iPhone may be making you sterile — not because of how it works, but because of how it’s made. It’s all in the phthalates, you see. At least, that’s the claim of a new lawsuit against Apple. Ted Samson isn’t covering all the lawsuits against Apple in Sustainable IT, but the phthinking of phthe phthalate opponents is squarely on his green radar screen.