cisco call manger and newer ios

[sarahr202]

hi everybody

Cisco call manager started as an application running on microsoft operating systems.  Does new ios come with cisco manager so we do not need a microsft server running call manager?

thanks and have a nice weekend

[Daniele Giordano · Accepted solution]

From wikipedia:

CallManager 5.0 was released in parallel with CallManager 4.2 on 6 March  2006. Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 is Linux based (Cisco VOS)

Version 6 was supposed to merge all features of the Linux appliance (SIP  support and licensing requirements) between the Linux platform and  Windows version, and it was based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The released version of Unified Communications Manager will not support the Windows platform. This version will install natively on VMWare for lab purposes.

Version 7 was originally stated to be available in both Windows and  Appliance models. However Cisco has since stated that OS independence.

CUCM 8.X supports virtualization.

More info on CUCM data sheet.

Regards.