Comments on: With Microsoft in Sight, Cisco Buys Jabber

By: With Chatter, Salesforce Takes a Facebook Approach to Collaboration

With Chatter, Salesforce Takes a Facebook Approach to Collaboration — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:19:06 +0000

[...] Facebook and Twitter status updates, making it unique from other enterprise collaboration offerings from Cisco and Microsoft, which revolve more around traditional IM screens, video conferencing and presence [...]

By: Cisco Shows Off Its Hit List

Cisco Shows Off Its Hit List — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:57:25 +0000

[...] She also spent some time describing new features and how Cisco is building its PostPath and Jabber acquisitions into its WebEx brand to offer email and IM integrated with WebEx’s meeting [...]

By: When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong | 123 All Reviews

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:52:02 +0000

[...] no corresponding rule that taxes personal calls made on a company landline. What happens once unified communications products using VoIP become popular and the entire need for a phone changes? At that point communication no longer [...]

By: When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong

When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:29:33 +0000

[...] happens once unified communications products using VoIP become popular and the entire need for a phone changes? At that point communication no longer [...]

By: Microsoft and HP Team Up to Take on Cisco

Microsoft and HP Team Up to Take on Cisco — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:01:35 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 6:00 PM PT | 0 comments Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard said today they’ve teamed up to push Microsoft’s unified communication software and HP gear to enterprise users. The two companies are jointly spending $180 million over the next four years on what they call their Frontline Partnership to develop and market ways to use Microsoft’s communications software in HP’s machines. The partnership can be read as a high-powered endorsements of Microsoft’s communications technology as well as a stab at Cisco, which is pushing its own unified communications products. [...]

By: With Microsoft in Sight, Cisco invests in Xobni

With Microsoft in Sight, Cisco invests in Xobni — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:08:35 +0000

[...] over the concept of collaboration, as I noted earlier. Cisco last year bought Jabber to compete more effectively with Microsoft, and it had also acquired email startup PostPath for $215 [...]

By: An Open Instant Messaging Platform called Jabber | lab209

An Open Instant Messaging Platform called Jabber | lab209 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:02:54 +0000

[...] was acquired by Cisco in September [...]

By: Tony Rybczynski Nortel

Tony Rybczynski Nortel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:19:15 +0000

UC has to unify both the end user experience AND the underlying infrastructure, and I don’t see Jabber moving Cisco towards the latter objective. See http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-hyperconnected-enterprise/unified-communications/jabber-acquisition-highlights-cisco-shortfalls-in-uc.asp

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:59:13 +0000

Another acquisition for the WebEx platform. Soon will come a hosted CRM acquisition!

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:21:22 +0000

Cisco has bought in total 3 presence companies across the years but has still not be able to release a commercially viable solution. Jabber Inc was at the end of the rope – they have not signed a major customer in years and had trouble closing a round of funding last year. That is another bail out … Hopefully Cisco will be more successful with Jabber than they have been with their previous Presence / IM acquisition.

By: Cisco compra Jabber, piattaforma di Instant Messaging, pensa alla collaborazione e alla presenza | VoipBlog.it

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:49:53 +0000

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By: JimAtJaxtr

JimAtJaxtr — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:08:37 +0000

I think Cisco is showing that they understand the power of social communications in the context of business, ie collaboration. Is there anybody that Microsoft isn’t competing with now. They certainly have a lot of stuff going on.

By: Andy Zmolek

Andy Zmolek — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Jabber Inc. has kept the open source jabber community separate from day 1 – there’s no open source comment necessary for the Jabber deal because it was always clearly separated. Go to http://www.jabber.org and take a look for yourself

By: Valdiation For The Real Time Web - Cisco Weights In With Jabber and XMPP « Furrier.org - Business & Technology Blog

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:50:29 +0000

[...] communications, Jabber, Real Time Web trackback Cisco just announced that they are buying Jabber. GigaOm has a post on it. What does this mean? What big trend is this [...]

By: rohit

rohit — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:17:21 +0000

XMPP makes eminent sense. With SIP/VoIP + XMPP they are getting the toolkit together for building all kinds of connectors for collaboration.

By: DD Ganguly

DD Ganguly — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:13:50 +0000

Hi,

Any comment from Cisco about keeping Jabber open source?

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