[asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

2008-09-20 Thread Dean Collins
Wow - now this interesting http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/19/cisco-acquires-jabber-for-enterpris e-im/ I wonder what this means in the long run for the open development of this platform? Regards, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 (New York) +61-2-9016-5642

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

2008-09-20 Thread David Backeberg
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

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

2008-09-20 Thread Dean Collins
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

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

2008-09-20 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:18:42PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote: No I know they just bought the company and not the protocol basically they bought engineering bums on seats. [1]http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/cisco-acquires-jabber.ht ml Cisco obviously didn't buy

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco acquires Jabber

2008-09-20 Thread mitcheloc
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