ZDNet Australia: Despite Open-Source Ideology, QUT Embraces Microsoft Integration

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"Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.

"The university, which has more than 40,000 students in a variety of disciplines, began revisiting its messaging environment--a concatenation of standalone best-of-breed products that were poorly integrated--after a Gartner review suggested it encourage collaboration by embracing unified messaging..."

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