Crisis, What crisis........not everybody is in crisis

Ok we do have a crisis but this is not by definition a bad thing. Car repair centers, fastfood and cheap food (bit of the same) restaurants, and videconference companies are doing great right now. According to the latest figures videoconferencing is growing fast.

Although the sales in the US is not really growing Europe is growing very fast and focussing on hight definition. According to Gartner in 2012 we will book 2.1 million less plane tickets due to videoconferencing.

This makes videoconferencing an interesting market and it's pretty clear why Cisco and HP want their share (and so does Microsoft with OCS). This has not been unnoticed by the traditional video conferencing manufacturers like Polycom. As a matter of fact, Polycom is fighting back and bringing VC to the desktop with an application that also provides application/desktop sharing, chatting etc. Kind of OCS like functionality. Hope they make this compatible with OCS (currently less than 15% of the VTC systems are connected to OCS) so customers have a choice, not just for a specific brand but also for different situations (guess it all comes down to $$$$)