asterisk users - Sep 2008 - Cisco acquires Jabber

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?

 

 

 

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> 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 stays true:
http://www.jabber.com/CE/JabberXCPInteroperabilityOptions

Cisco didn't buy the protocol, and literally dozens of open-source
projects that use the protocol in various ways are not affected by
this. They bought one commercial implementation of a Jabber server
(arguably multiple implementations).