The bottom line: Lync is way too complicated for IT to set up. If you decide to
go for Microsoft's unified communications vision, save yourself a lot of grief
and hire an outside expert if you actully want to deploy it in production"

Buddy of mine apparent won his boss over this morning with this excerpt from an
Infoworld article. He now has full authorization to look into moving forward
with a unified approach but on linux - specifically Ubuntu. This is something I
love to hear.