Avaya Integration Will Bring Google Talk to Desk Phones

I find this incredibly awesome and a great step towards multiple company technology collaborations. Being able to bridge existing IP phone technology with Google talk, and online office applications provides small businesses that much more incentive to look at alternatives to Microsoft's collaboration suite.

To hear some of the wilder speculation, it shouldn’t be more than a few more years before Google is providing most of the applications and communication services most people will ever want. They'll use Google Apps hosted document processing and spreadsheet services to do all their office tasks, and make all of their phone calls over the Internet via Google Talk. In short, Google will replace both Microsoft and AT&T. But while such a vision may border on fantasy, a plan Avaya announced last week could bring at least the telephony part a step closer to reality.

IP Office plus Google Apps could prove attractive to small and mid-sized businesses. [VoIP News]