Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol used by Google Talk and Gizmo, for an undisclosed sum.
Cisco will try to use Jabber as a means of improving its messaging offerings in the business world. Jabber’s technology enables collaboration across a wide array of presence systems such as, Microsoft Office Communications Server, IBM Sametime, AOL AIM, and Google, which made it an ideal target for the company.
“Enterprise organizations want an extensible presence and messaging platform that can integrate with business process applications and easily adapt to their changing needs,” said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group. “With the acquisition of Jabber, we will be able to extend the reach of our current instant messaging service and expand the capabilities of our collaboration platform. Our intention is to be the interoperability benchmark in the collaboration space.”
The amount of the acquisition were not announced, but considering Cisco’s desire to break into the enterprise IM space, especially in the face of new enterprise messaging services like Yammer and Present.ly, it was a hole Cisco needed to fill.
Liking Cisco building out it’s SoME portfolio… next up - Oovoo or a Twitter clone?
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That is great news. Perhaps some of the talent at Jabber will be more interested in joining a startup than hanging at a big co. Hopefully, it was an all cash deal.
The Cisco employee store is nicer, plus now you can now buy all the Linksys routers you can lay your hands on at discount prices. This prices are INSANE!!! (not).
Cisco IT will make your life a living hell. Just the call in number and main menu for the helpdesk is as bad as Microsoft’s. And a password reset…well… hara-kiri anyone?
Other than that, welcome to the Human Network!
I believe Cisco purchased Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging software - see Jabber.com.
Are you retarded? Most of us know who jabber is without explanation.
He’s right, Cisco didn’t get ‘Jabber.org’ the open-source server on the XMPP protocol, they got ‘Jabber.com’ which is the closed source server on the XMPP protocol.
They are down the street from me, and my old CEO was their CEO prior to that. I’m just talking about the actual news rather than what was written by Don in this post.
Do you normally comment as “Captain Obvious”?
@frank Maybe you need a chill-pill before you keep offending people like a troll.
Yeah, they really do need to correct the link, it is confusing. It needs to point to Jabber.com.
As a Cisco employee and a huge fan of XMPP (the Jabber protocol) for several years now, I think this was an absolutely brilliant move. XMPP is very under-appreciated and if Cisco is able to leverage the protocol properly it will absolutely crush everybody in the unified communications space.
My only hope is that they keep the open licensing so that the XMPP protocol can continue to grow separately from Cisco. This could be a win for the entire industry.
Agreed.
With this new pony in the stable, I’m hoping that Cisco UPC becomes much more over time for the SMB market and Enterpries. It would be a huge play.
Couple this with Cisco’s ISR and Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP) and things get a lot more interesting in a very short window.
Servers are a PITA… and hopefully Cisco will have some ways to cut down the number of them without waiting for virtualization to reach critical mass on platforms outside their control.
Don,
Cisco bought Jabber, Inc., a commercial software company , not an open-source protocol.
Oops, didn’t read what Don wrote. You all know better, who cares that some don’t understand.
Anyway, I would love to have some of Jabber’s talent that has been wasted on government projects for far too long
Wait, you don’t read what the article states (and ignore the link and other information from CrunchBase) and call me “Captain Obvious”?
I read the linked press release because I have tired of Don’s misinformed take on topics. Most of us know better and do not require further clarification.
I guess you think you are so smart for figuring out Cisco bought a company, not a protocol?
GMAB
Hehe… “Cisco announced today that it has acquired English, the natural language communication protocol used by surprisingly few companies, for an undisclosed sum.”
Don, are you high?! Let me have some of what you’re smoking!
Cisco acquired an open source protocol…..pffff!
Good move by Cisco. Jabber is an application that we use throughout our office and is one helluva an IM.
Any news on keeping Jabber Open source?
Warm regards,
ddg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.....e_Protocol
“Cisco announced today that it has acquired Jabber, an open-source IM and presence protocol…”, Jabber is the company built around the original Jabber protocol. That protocol is now XMPP. They bought a company, not a standard.
Ironically the best implementation of a Jabber Server is Openfire: http://www.igniterealtime.org/...../index.jsp
It seems like Cisco wanted to buy a cheap company like Jabber.com instead of a successful one like Jive.
You are incorrect. Jabber has been profitable for some time now. They just work on government contracts requiring lots of security. Jive has lots of other crap that Cisco wouldn’t want to support or service. Why would Cisco want a CMS?
Openfire the best? Pfft, ejabberrd, by a mile.
I didn’t said that Jabber.com isn’t profitable, I have said that Jabber.com is a cheaper option. When the details arrive we can discuss further.
Hehe:) it’s a fun reading ejabberd junky (by the way, only 1 r here:P) commenting on openfire
“crap”?:))) that must be easy setup and administration. “lots of security”:))) i just see how they add a pile “of security” here, and there, and then again two piles of “security” other there and so on.. LOTS of security:)))
I think Cisco wanted a software platform that would scale, not fall over under the crippling load of 300-400 users. Tigase can, Jabber’s XCP can, and even ejabberd can (to some extent), but from everything I’ve seen Openfire can’t.
Have to say - just stumbled accross this site - cant believe what a prick “Frank” is - whats with all the abuse you idiot?
geebus, you retarded
Wow, talk about how confusing bad wording in an article can be. It was mentioned before, but Jabber, Inc. is one of many *companies* that was built around the XMPP (also called Jabber) protocol, and was acquired by CISCO. Compare it to buying a company called “Web, Inc.”, which does not mean you buy HTTP and can do whatever you want with it.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspo.....abber.html
So I guess they have bought ‘developer expertise’ and bums on seats by buying the company, and apart from obviously ‘bringing industry and investor attention’ on the other development companies in the space (Jive, Openfire, Tigasse etc) I’m wondering what this means for the long term.
So i get that Cisco 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.
Regards,
Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net
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