[asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

[mitcheloc]

"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."

Dean, I'm right there with you. My money is on them using it as the first
step in a larger strategy to provide a framework for applications to run on
network without needing an operating system. Think Amazon Elastic Cloud
(with P2P and presence built in) but for applications.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:

>  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
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> 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.
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> 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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> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> dean at cognation.net
>
> +1-212-203-4357 (New York)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:
> asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Backeberg
> Sent: Saturday, 20 September 2008 10:58 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber
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>
>
> > I wonder what this means in the long run for the open development of this
>
> > platform?
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> Not a darn thing, unless Cisco screws around and makes an incompatible
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> version of a jabber server and client that doesn't play according to
>
> the protocol. Microsoft Java, anybody?
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> We'll see how long this list stays true:
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> http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions
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> Cisco didn't buy the protocol, and literally dozens of open-source
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> projects that use the protocol in various ways are not affected by
>
> this. They bought one commercial implementation of a Jabber server
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> (arguably multiple implementations).
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