Cisco Buys Jabber - What Does It Mean? The Big Trend is…
Cisco just announced that they are buying Jabber. What does this mean? What big trend is this validating?
REAL TIME WEB - It’s a hedge against the so called Unified Communications sector. Wait — it is Unified Communications.
All the major action going on revolves around these Jabber like markets - presence, virtualization, networking, live video, real time conversations (aka social media), social graphs…etc
Just this week at VMWorld things like Cisco’s Virtual Switch is a indicator. Cisco has found a way around all that bothersome metal and plastic used to make its networking gear. The company has concocted a virtual switch that it’s selling in tandem with VMware, the leader in virtualization software and a close Cisco partner (says the NY Times).
How about Amazon’s recent announcment on their CDN. Here Amazon announced a new content delivery offering under development that they expect to make widely available before the end of the year. While the initial content delivery offering won’t compete with the major CDNs like Akamai and Limelight when it is released, it has the potential to down the road if Amazon adds some specific product functionality.
Now Jabber - hmmm - Hello Real Time Web or Unified Communications paradigm shift.
We are seeing a convergence of web 2.0 and infrastructure change that certainly is changing what people thought Unified Communications was 2 years ago.
If I’m IBM (Lotus Notes in particular) and Microsoft I have to be really thinking hard about what the hell is going on…
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