Telepocalypse

IMS rant of the day

For those interested, my day out in London at an IMS seminar yesterday is documented over at IMS Insider.

IMS starts to make more sense if you think of it as just a service delivery platform, and forget the politics. Nobody gets too riled up about Microsoft’s .NET or Enterprise Java. Likewise, a “.Voice” or “Java Real-Time Enterprise” — and that’s kind of what IMS is — isn’t a particularly ugly or malicious beast in and of itself. Much like with the above Web platforms, I suspect a lot of the action willl end up taking place on simpler and cheaper platforms (think Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP translated over into Linux/Asterisk etc.)