What's more, Nolle says that the current edition of ExperiaSphere is only the beginning. In the toolkit's next phase, CIMI will incorporate a more "socially aware" framework that will blend social networking, calling, collaboration and unified communications. And eventually, Nolle says that CIMI will release the toolkit's source code to allow for open-source development.

"We launched ExperiaSphere to prove that it was possible to create robust service architectures for web-oriented tools," says Nolle. "We wanted to build what the Web community would have created if it had been tasked with creating IMS."