Comments on: So Much For A Microsoft-Cisco Peace Accord http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Earnhardt http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180147 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:17:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180147 Om:

I would also draw your attention to this blog post by MSFT’s head UC guru where he says, SURPRISE!, that software is most important for UC and networks are just “plumbing.”

http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2007/08/16/software-the-medium-to-greater-business-value-with-communications.aspx

We never said we would not compete. Competition, as you know, drives innovation and that’s where customers gain.

]]> By: Yuvamani http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180146 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:34:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180146 I agree with “shmoe”. The pact is only for interoperability. This is to take on the open source solutions like asterisk which by virtue of being open, are more flexible****
By allowing interoperability more units of both cisco and msft products will be sold. This does not mean that cisco and msft will not compete with each other.

]]> By: joe shmoe http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180145 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:03:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180145 Comeon Om, both the CEOs I think were fairly explicit that they will compete just as aggressively as before — Steve saying Cisco will be a respectable competitor and Chambers making an equivalent, if not more aggressive, remark — then why do you have to spin it out this way? Sensationalism?

Yes each of them has a right to trumpet their product to the extent of demeaning and downplaying the other brutally, but tell the world when they make it incompatible-ly so. If you go read their PRs, their stmts, they were explicit that they are coming together only because enterprise customers wanted them to work together. Sheesh!

Sad to see you bank on sensationalist (untrue) blogs! Tsk Tsk Tsk!

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180144 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:20:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180144 Well put, though i hear there is a press conference tomorrow jointly hosted by Sun and Microsoft – another peace accord.

]]> By: GeoSpark http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180143 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:47:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/11/cisco-vs-microsoft-round-two/#comment-180143 How is this surprising to anyone? Since when has Microsoft ever played nice with anyone? You don’t get a monopoly on desktops into perpetuity by playing nice.

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