Google Voicemail replacing hardware based system

I haven't posted in a year and a day. Literally. I guess I haven't had many cool ideas.

Google announced that they will now provide Google Voicemail to non-Google phone numbers. I really, really, hope they will include this, even as an optional service, into Google Apps for Education. This would allow us to ditch the big hardware-based voicemail system and set up voicemail accounts for every employee "in the cloud."

Read more at http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?answer=164819