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IBM and 3Com Plan First Internet Telephony Suite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-last-I-can-call-my-mother dept.

TechnoGuyRob writes "IBM and 3Com, a company best known for its computer network infrastructure products, are teaming up to provide the world's first IP telephony suite. From the article: 'IBM and 3Com intend to offer the 3Com VCX suite of IP telephony Relevant Products/Services from solutions on IBM's System i business-computing platform... This means clients will be able to run business and telephony applications simultaneously managed by the System i's tools.' The application is intended for the Linux-on-Power operating system; so yes, it will run Linux."

3 of 70 comments (clear)

  1. fr1st p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fr1st p0st

  2. Echo-3 to Echo-7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Han old buddy! You read me?

  3. 3Com Still Around...? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't think 3Com survive the dot-com-go-busty cycle. What has it been doing since spinning off Palm and not being swallowed up by Cisco?

    On a side note, my first modem was a USR 2400 internal.