Cisco to Acquire Jabber
Cisco announced today that it is acquiring Jabber Inc., maker of the instant messaging protocol used in products such as AOL AIM, Google Talk, and IBM Sametime. The acquisition is a move by Cisco to improve its presence and messaging services targeted at the corporate market.
According to a statement issued by the company today,
The acquisition will enable Cisco to embed presence and messaging services “in the network” and provide rich aggregation capabilities to users through both on-premise and on-demand solutions, across multiple platforms including Cisco WebEx Connect and Cisco Unified Communications.
“Enterprise organizations want an extensible presence and messaging platform that can integrate with business process applications and easily adapt to their changing needs,” said Doug Dennerline, Cisco senior vice president, Collaboration Software Group. “With the acquisition of Jabber, we will be able to extend the reach of our current instant messaging service and expand the capabilities of our collaboration platform. Our intention is to be the interoperability benchmark in the collaboration space.”
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jabber employees will become part of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group at the completion of the acquisition.
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