Convergence: Not hip, still happening

摘要

Definitions are fun. Melanie Turek, a specialist in collaboration technolo-gies, likes to remind folks that one of Webster's dictionary meanings of collaboration is, "to cooperate with the enemy." (Open sourcers say that's only if you're using Microsoft products.) So what do you call the quiet but very real shift that's underway as companies integrate mobile technologies, voice, data, video and collaboration tools? The best term I've got is yesterday's oh-so-tired buzzword, "convergence." The dictionary definition for convergence is "to come together or unite," based on the Latin terms "con," meaning "with," and "vergere," meaning "to bend or incline." It's still an outstanding way to describe the "coming together" of voice, data, video, wireless and collaboration on enterprise networks today.