Alcatel-Lucent unveiled their Rich Communications Manager just a couple of days ago at CTIA. Could this be a serious competitor to Google Voice?
The Rich Communications Manager offers the user a single web destination to access all of their messages from voice-mails, SMS, MMS, emails and fax.
Additional features include: respond forward in kind, built-in address book, mobile and on-line web access.
This is nothing new to the industry however by going with a desktop-style design that people are familiar with ALU is allowing for the content to be dragged and dropped across the available message form. This means you can take your voice mail and forward it on using MMS.
But the really cool thing about this is Alcatel-Lucent will also be releasing a communications widget which will allow third party developers to mash-up with their existing apps, so that the above functions can be integrated with other services. Read more
Everyone at ALU, make sure you come to JavaOne and meet the largest developer community and highlight how developers can build this onto their existing applications.
Contact me: darrell.jordan-smith@sun.com
They are waiting for a legal notice from microsoft.
Posted by Notice on April 03, 2009 at 08:26 AM EDT #
Nice post, Darrell. The interesting about the Rich Communications Manager is, that it's based on Laszlo System's Laszlo Webtop product, which in turn runs on the open source OpenLaszlo platform. If Sun would have continued Project Orbit with Laszlo, the Rich Communications Manager could be running as a J2ME or JavaFX application by now. "http://orbit.dev.java.net/"
I have a bit more information on the Rich Communications Manager in my blog at:
"http://openfuture.rajubitter.com/tag/laszlowebtop/"
Posted by Raju Bitter on May 25, 2009 at 06:16 PM EDT #
Nice post, Darrell. The interesting about the Rich Communications Manager is, that it's based on Laszlo System's Laszlo Webtop product, which in turn runs on the open source OpenLaszlo platform. If Sun would have continued Project Orbit with Laszlo, the Rich Communications Manager could be running as a J2ME or JavaFX application by now. "orbit.dev.java.net/"
I have a bit more information on the Rich Communications Manager in my blog at:
"openfuture.rajubitter.com/tag/laszlowebtop/"
Posted by Raju Bitter on May 25, 2009 at 06:16 PM EDT #