The small company that I work for and part own, uses Cisco gear in every corner and nook. Close to us and in far away lands. And I am sure there got to be more in between.In front of these myriad networks, we also develop products for prestigious companies. Companies that take most part of your earnings!. Basically we have to convince clients that our products could provide what they require to operate smoothly and more. These clients, they are all over the nation. Some of these, we visit and provide face to face demos. The others we hold teleconferences and provide online demos, using WebEx from, again Cisco. Once we have convinced our clients, we get to setup the products to fit their needs as every one differs in their own way. So we got on with our developers, who expands a few continents. Again it is phones (Asterisk IPPBX) and WebEx. So when we heard that Cisco is definitely going to acquire Jabber, we knew we do not need to whisper, anymore. The other thing is that we have been happily Jabbering on Asterisk with chan_mobile for a while!, ourselves. Our original Jabber server still alive on a Pentium III machine!
So Cisco, we are ready!. Following is the Cisco press release regarding the Jabber acquisition;
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sept. 19, 2008 - Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging software. Based in Denver, Jabber will work with Cisco to enhance the existing presence and messaging functions of Cisco's Collaboration portfolio.
The acquisition will enable Cisco to embed presence and messaging services "in the network" and provide rich aggregation capabilities to users through both on-premise and on-demand solutions, across multiple platforms including Cisco WebEx® Connect and Cisco Unified Communications.
"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."
Jabber provides a carrier-grade, best-in-class presence and messaging platform. Jabber's technology leverages open standards to provide a highly scalable architecture that supports the aggregation of presence information across different devices, users and applications. The technology also enables collaboration across many different presence systems such as Microsoft Office Communications Server, IBM Sametime, AOL AIM, Google and Yahoo!. Jabber's platform leads the market in system robustness, scalability, extensibility and global distribution.
The Jabber acquisition exemplifies Cisco's "build, buy and partner" innovation strategy to move quickly into new markets and capture key market transitions. In addition to internal software innovations, Cisco actively employs investments in, and acquisitions of, other companies to support its software strategy; recent purchases include industry leaders WebEx, IronPort, Securent and PostPath.The transaction will be accounted for in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Financial terms of the transaction are undisclosed. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in Cisco's first half of fiscal year 2009. Upon completion of the acquisition, Jabber employees will become part of the Cisco Collaboration Software Group (CSG). CSG is part of the recently established Software Group, consisting of Cisco's major software businesses; including the IOS network operating system, network and service management, Unified Communications solutions, policy management, and SaaS offerings.
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