Have you seen this story? Cisco definitely wants to own the VoIP market. I wonder what effect this will have on Sipura products. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20050427/bs_nf/33554 MARK.
I guess the prices will go up like a rocket.... Isamar On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, MF Hulber wrote:> Have you seen this story? Cisco definitely wants to own the VoIP > market. I wonder what effect this will have on Sipura products. > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20050427/bs_nf/33554 > > MARK. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
We can always buy from China, not to mention some of they will support IAX2 protocol. #Joseph On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:54 +0900, Isamar Maia wrote:> I guess the prices will go up like a rocket.... > > Isamar > > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, MF Hulber wrote: > > > Have you seen this story? Cisco definitely wants to own the VoIP > > market. I wonder what effect this will have on Sipura products.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Isamar Maia" <isamar@isamarmaia.org> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura> > I guess the prices will go up like a rocket....Not necessarily, When Cisco acquired linksys the prices of the linksys equipment went down. Guess you never know until it happens.
I think its a win win situation. Cisco has tons of money to throw at them to get a better product with more features. I dont believe they would aquire them and not put money in them to make a better product.> > >> >> I guess the prices will go up like a rocket.... > > > Not necessarily, When Cisco acquired linksys the prices of the > linksys equipment went down. > > Guess you never know until it happens.
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:22 -0400, Steven Kalcevich wrote:> I think its a win win situation. Cisco has tons of money to throw at > them to get a better product with more features. I dont believe they > would aquire them and not put money in them to make a better product. > > > > > > > >> > >> I guess the prices will go up like a rocket.... > > > > > > Not necessarily, When Cisco acquired linksys the prices of the > > linksys equipment went down. > > > > Guess you never know until it happens. > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-usersIn 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source community, then they may well buy the company to shut it down. Time will tell!
>In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, >and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) >want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in >Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source community, then they >may well buy the company to shut it down. > >Then Jan Fandrianto will just create a new VoIP adapter company and sell it to Cisco in a few years and make a ton of money three times in a row. Is this guy smart or what! I remember those Summa Four switches well. I configured and installed them for IBM customers. They were nice pieces of hardware. Too bad Cisco let them die.> >Time will tell! > >_______________________________________________ > > > >-- Andres Network Admin http://www.telesip.net
Andres wrote:> >> In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 Million, >> and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on what they (Cisco ) >> want from the transaction. If Sipura has a part in causing a drop in >> Cisco revenue due to adoption by the Open source community, then they >> may well buy the company to shut it down. >> >> > Then Jan Fandrianto will just create a new VoIP adapter company and > sell it to Cisco in a few years and make a ton of money three times in > a row. Is this guy smart or what! >*President and CEO: Jan Fandrianto* ? Over 21 Years of High-Technology Industry Experience ? Founder and CEO of Komodo Technology, Inc. - Acquired by Cisco Systems ? Founder and CEO of VideoCore Technology, Inc. - Acquired by ESS Technology ? CTO and VP of Engineering at 8x8, Inc. - formerly IIT http://www.sipura.com/company/leadership.htm> I remember those Summa Four switches well. I configured and installed > them for IBM customers. They were nice pieces of hardware. Too bad > Cisco let them die. > >> >> Time will tell! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >
David Boyd wrote:> > In 1998 Cisco purchased a company called Summa Four for $116 > Million, and left them to die on the vine. It all depends on > what they (Cisco ) want from the transaction. If Sipura has > a part in causing a drop in Cisco revenue due to adoption by > the Open source community, then they may well buy the company > to shut it down. > > > Time will tell!Well, I tend to think that Sipura's products will come out ahead here. For example, when Cisco bought Linksys, one might have expected them to cripple or shut them down - after all, Linksys makes routers, and Cisco makes routers. Obviously that didn't happen, because Cisco saw an opportunity in having a "low-end" SOHO product line, and a high-end "enterprise" line. I think the same will happen with Sipura. Cisco makes excellent, well-designed, but expensive IP phones. Sipura makes good low-end products. Despite the fact that you can pick up a router at most any electronics or office supply store for $20, Linksys continues to be successful. I see no reason that Sipura won't do the same, in the face of the imminent flood of cheap IP phones. Assuming that Cisco gives them the money and room to innovate. It wouldn't really make any sense for Cisco to grab Sipura's technology and shut them down, since there are already several companies producing similar products, and I guarantee there will be many more. There's no way that Cisco can put this genie back in the bottle. Brian Leyton IT Manager Commercial Petroleum Equipment