Re:Cisco (Score 1)

I believe Cisco would be looking at Jabber for its intra-domain federation capabilities and basic IM functionality. Today Cisco can integrate with Microsoft Office Communicator and Sametime, and they also have their own client, Personal Communicator. It is simple to link seperate companies / domain using SIP but it's actually quite tough to link multiple platforms within the same company. This may sound uncommon but it actually happens quite often believe it or not. On the IM front, if you have ever used the IM client in Cisco's Personal Communicator you will understand why this acquisition makes sense. The current Cisco offering lacks basic functionality, such as multi party chat, and as such is certainly not ready for the large enterprise. With the purchase of Jabber they can bolt on this type of functionality quite quickly. Could they develop this functionality themselves? Undoubtedly, but it would take longer and almost certainly be less stable and feature rich for than the competition for several years.