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I'm surprised this article/slideshow only featured commercial/proprietary closed-source paid web conferencing products when there are quite a few free open source projects available for the same purpose. This is especially surprising since TechRepublic has featured these in the past (http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/50-180774). Of course, these do require you to set up your own server to host the conference, but we're IT pros here, so that shouldn't be any problem.

I've set up two BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org) servers, one physical and one virtual, and both worked great. I've also played with OpenMeetings (http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/) and was quite impressed with its capabilities. Considering how tight most IT budgets are today, we are using more open source alternatives now instead of paid subscription services and saving a lot of money without sacrificing the essential features we need.