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 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. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 (New York) +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney) http://www.Cognation.net <http://www.Cognation.net/profile> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > I wonder what this means in the long run for the open development of this > platform? Not a darn thing, unless Cisco screws around and makes an incompatible version of a jabber server and client that doesn't play according to the protocol. Microsoft Java, anybody? We'll see how long this list stays true: http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions Cisco didn't buy the protocol, and literally dozens of open-source projects that use the protocol in various ways are not affected by this. They bought one commercial implementation of a Jabber server (arguably multiple implementations). _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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