Google's Buzz a UC play?

Google just launched a new collaborative tool called Buzz that serves to challenge Twitter, Facebook and possibly...unified communications and collaboration tools? Perhaps, posits PCWorld writer Tony Bradley. With GMail's features including email, text chat, video and voice talk, and now collaboration with Buzz, the suite of tools could be seen as a challenge to UC offerings from big league players like Cisco and Microsoft.

Just a few days ago Google revealed that it would be launching an enterprise version of Google Voice through its Apps suite for businesses. Combine that offering with the mythic Google VoIP, the new collaborative features of Buzz, the virtually unlimited inbox of Gmail, and Google's video chat features and you have many of the same features of UC packages. Bradley's article points out that the main thing holding back Google's UC suite is the lack of international VoIP support, but I am sure with the acquisition of Gizmo5 those details should be worked out soon--perhaps with the launch of Google Voice for enterprises.

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