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Article: Analysts Predict Unified Messaging Services Boom as Internet Fuels Message Chaos.
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- Business Wire
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- December 11, 1998
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BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 1998--Unified messaging looks set to radically change personal communications over the next ten years, according to research just out from Ovum Inc. independent technology analysts. Ovum's report, Unified Messaging Services: Market Strategies, points to the Internet as a primary cause of the current messaging malaise and likens the advent of unified messaging services to the introduction of direct dialing. Ovum anticipates global unified messaging services markets to be worth 31$ billion by 2006.
According to Roger Walton, a senior analyst with Ovum Inc. in Burlington, "Dealing with messages is becoming more and more ...