Cisco Systems plans to assimilate the instant messaging software maker Jabber Inc. into the corporate collective, bolstering the network giant's arsenal of enterprise communication and collaboration tools against the likes of Microsoft, Google, IBM and others. Denver-based Jabber is the commercial software house behind the …

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Friday 19th September 2008 20:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

errr its free

Don't tell the dumbbois at CiscNo, but Jabber is open source protocol, they could have created their own client and integrated without capex.

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Friday 19th September 2008 20:46 GMT Neil Greatorex

Oi! Cisco, Jabber - No!

I ain't gettin on no jabber enabled cisco device, you crazy fools!

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Monday 22nd September 2008 10:10 GMT Dan

Eh?

Why didn't they just implement the XMPP protocol? Even if they wanted to extend the protocol with Cisco-specific stuff they could have done anyway without buying Jabber. Madness.

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Monday 22nd September 2008 10:10 GMT prathlev

@err its free

Developing your own Jabber client isn't free. It takes competent developers. Now they have some. And furthermore they are in a position to steer the development of the "official" Jabber protocol.

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Monday 22nd September 2008 10:10 GMT Pheet

slight correction

"The Jabber protocol acts as a bridge between the firm's own XML-based chat and proprietary Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo IM clients "

No. There are plug-ins (oft 3. party) available for jabber servers (of which there are several flavours) referred to as gateways, which will bridge to other IM protocols (and other transports such as email).

There are _extensions_ to the core jabber protocol which define/advise on address translation (so for example fred@msn.com becomes fred%msn.com@msgateway.jabberhost.net ) and on service discovery of available gateways.

Bit more research needed, or least should have been better phrased IMO.

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Monday 22nd September 2008 18:49 GMT Robert Ramsay

spokesman needs to be shot

"Our intention is to be the interoperability benchmark in the collaboration space."

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! DIE!!!!!!!!!!

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Monday 22nd September 2008 18:49 GMT Mike Smith

Owner

WEBB owns 1/3 of Jabber. WEBB announced that shareholders will get .32/ share from the CISCO purchase. WEBB is trading at .25/ share today. There is a .07 profit on the table for your taking ladies and gentlemen.

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