Alcatel catches up with Slimphony

With the 5.0 release of the OmniTouch Unified Communications suite, Alcatel seems to have finally understood the principles of unified communications. It only took Alcatel 3 years to figure it out, following the purchase of eDial in 2004. eDial was then a 30 employees start-up boasting 100 customers and was acquired for 27 millions USD. Maybe they would have figured it out much faster if they had acquired Cycos rather than eDial at the time... but this is another story.

Well Slimphony head-count is just one, and its user base is greater than 100! Damned! Don't tell me I missed out a 1 million USD deal ?! ;)

Alcatel's OTUC R5.0 gets rid of the Web UI on the Windows Desktop and provides a very nice unified communications client with an integrated video softphone. A slim idea, isn't it ? ;)


On the server side, a single server is necessary to accomodate for up to 2000 users (plus one dedicated server for conferencing & IM services).

The pricing has also been revamped : less than 150€ WPL, no server-fee which makes the solution affordable.

Now that Alcatel have caught up Slimphony, they are ready for the Microsoft challenge ;)