[asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

[Dean Collins]

No I know they just bought the company and not the protocol basically
they bought engineering bums on seats.

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/cisco-acquires-jabber.html

 

Cisco obviously didn't buy jabber.com engineers to implement a Cisco IM
platform for their retail clients and that they must have something much
bigger in mind.

 

You could possible see different Cisco devices communicating with each
other (or even using an api to communicate with other manufacturers
devices) eg, you might have an XMPP api to 'discover' appliance
functionality or to communicate status updates.

 

 

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> I wonder what this means in the long run for the open development of
this

> platform?

 

Not a darn thing, unless Cisco screws around and makes an incompatible

version of a jabber server and client that doesn't play according to

the protocol. Microsoft Java, anybody?

 

We'll see how long this list stays true:

http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions

 

Cisco didn't buy the protocol, and literally dozens of open-source

projects that use the protocol in various ways are not affected by

this. They bought one commercial implementation of a Jabber server

(arguably multiple implementations).

 

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