Comments on: Cisco Finally Open to Open Source; Mulls Deeper Microsoft Relationship http://www.thevarguy.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TechIQ » Archive » Cisco: 8 Trends Worth Watching http://www.thevarguy.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-59043 TechIQ » Archive » Cisco: 8 Trends Worth Watching Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:12:40 +0000 http://techiqmag.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/#comment-59043 [...] be clear here. Cisco doesn’t plan to open source its IOS operating system. But the company finally mentioned open source and software in the same sentence at this event. The message was clear: Cisco wants to be open to all software relationships, and [...] [...] be clear here. Cisco doesn’t plan to open source its IOS operating system. But the company finally mentioned open source and software in the same sentence at this event. The message was clear: Cisco wants to be open to all software relationships, and [...]

]]> By: TechIQ » Archive » Cisco, Microsoft Resume Unified Communications Battle http://www.thevarguy.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-33089 TechIQ » Archive » Cisco, Microsoft Resume Unified Communications Battle Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:13:25 +0000 http://techiqmag.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/#comment-33089 <p>[...] can bet that the software giant and Cisco will find some sort of way to at least acknowledge that they are working to ensure interoperability across their [...]</p> [...] can bet that the software giant and Cisco will find some sort of way to at least acknowledge that they are working to ensure interoperability across their [...]

]]> By: John Earnhardt http://www.thevarguy.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-26332 John Earnhardt Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:19:09 +0000 http://techiqmag.com/2007/09/12/cisco-finally-gets-open-source-mulls-deeper-microsoft-relationship/#comment-26332 <p>I would draw your attention to Joe Burton's post on Cisco's blog about UC. He is CTO of our UC group.</p> <p>He states in part, "In this ever-changing global economy, can any business wait around to get outpaced by competitors while they experiment with PC or email-client-based-architecture for unified communications? Can they afford to exclude future prospective customers, employees, or partners who do not use email as their preferred communications medium? Can they afford the 18-24 month wait for a software-client-based call control architecture that will be marginally mature and deployable?"</p> <p>Full post here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/09/analysis_paralysis_on_uc_strat.html</p> I would draw your attention to Joe Burton’s post on Cisco’s blog about UC. He is CTO of our UC group.

He states in part, “In this ever-changing global economy, can any business wait around to get outpaced by competitors while they experiment with PC or email-client-based-architecture for unified communications? Can they afford to exclude future prospective customers, employees, or partners who do not use email as their preferred communications medium? Can they afford the 18-24 month wait for a software-client-based call control architecture that will be marginally mature and deployable?”

Full post here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/09/analysis_paralysis_on_uc_strat.html

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