Cisco To Buy Jabber 66
Danny Rathjens writes "In the continuing trend of big companies buying out small companies with open source products, Cisco has announced that they are buying Jabber. The press release doesn't really talk about the open source aspect of Jabber, and Jabber's website doesn't mention the news yet. I'm sure the question many of us have is whether Jabber's open source status will be changed in any way due to the purchase."
Reader Eddytorial had this to contribute: "eWEEK offers a good look into how Jabber's messaging client will fit into Cisco Systems' overall 'presence' strategy in its market wars with Avaya, Microsoft, Nortel, and others. Cisco, which already had a basic instant messaging option, but one that didn't scale for an enterprise nearly as well as Jabber's, has just about everything else in place." It's also worth noting that Cisco open-sourced Etch in recent months.
Nothing new for Cisco (Score:2, Insightful)
I think Cisco's entire marketing strategy is to buy out companies of products they wish they had and then rebrand and sell them.
Can I replace Chambers as the CEO?
Or.... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Nothing new for Cisco (Score:2, Insightful)
I think Cisco's entire marketing strategy is to buy out companies of products they wish they had and then rebrand and sell them.
Although I don't think that it's the case here Cisco also has a history of buying the competition and discontinuing their products. Buyouts can be a way to increase your engineering staff.
Cisco (Score:5, Insightful)
Cisco already provides phones, PBX, etc. and tools to mix your voicemail and e-mail into one system. Buying an IM company allows them to offer voicemail, e-mail, and IM on one platform. However they could have just used Jabber without buying it, unless they intend to end the open source licensing.
Re:Nothing new for Cisco (Score:2, Insightful)
I think Cisco's entire marketing strategy is to buy out companies of products they wish they had and then rebrand and sell them.
Can I replace Chambers as the CEO?
Cisco's done that along. pretty much every product line besides routers has been an acquisition
Re:Cisco (Score:4, Insightful)
Or if they just wanted a good way to get engineers who know their way around a particular family of technology, and who have a successful name backing them up...
When in doubt, fork off. (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Jabber Inc (Score:4, Insightful)