<div dir="ltr">"Cisco obviously didn't buy <a href="http://jabber.com">jabber.com</a> engineers to implement a Cisco IM platform for their retail clients and that they must have something much bigger in mind."<br>
<br>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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Dean Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dean@cognation.net">Dean@cognation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">No I know they just bought the company and not the protocol basically they bought engineering bums on seats.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/cisco-acquires-jabber.html" target="_blank">http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/cisco-acquires-jabber.html</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cisco obviously didn't buy <a href="http://jabber.com/" target="_blank">jabber.com</a> engineers to implement a Cisco IM platform for their retail clients and that they must have something much bigger in mind.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dean Collins<br><a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net" target="_blank">dean@cognation.net</a> <br><br></span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">+1-212-203-4357 (New York) <br>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of David Backeberg<br>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> I wonder what this means in the long run for the open development of this</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">> platform?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Not a darn thing, unless Cisco screws around and makes an incompatible</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">version of a jabber server and client that doesn't play according to</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the protocol. Microsoft Java, anybody?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We'll see how long this list stays true:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions" target="_blank">http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cisco didn't buy the protocol, and literally dozens of open-source</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">projects that use the protocol in various ways are not affected by</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">this. They bought one commercial implementation of a Jabber server</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(arguably multiple implementations).</span></font></p>
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