Comments on: Cisco Spots Opportunities, Challenges In Arizona http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/ 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: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/comment-page-1/#comment-105484 The VAR Guy Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5287#comment-105484 Nicklaz@4: Thanks for insights. The VAR Guy will continue watching the Asterisk market for short- and long-term trends. Certainly, Asterisk is a small threat to Cisco today. Two or three years out, much could change... Nicklaz@4: Thanks for insights. The VAR Guy will continue watching the Asterisk market for short- and long-term trends. Certainly, Asterisk is a small threat to Cisco today. Two or three years out, much could change…

]]> By: nicklaz http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/comment-page-1/#comment-105481 nicklaz Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:28:01 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5287#comment-105481 i personally do not see cisco purchasing digium. why would cisco acquire an open source company that competes directly with one of it's core competencies? this could potentially steer more people towards asterisk which would cannibalize the sales of their higher margin telephony systems. yes, cisco has dabbled in open source acquisitions in the past (read:jabber) but this would be completely different. jabber was purchased to fulfill a gap missing from cisco's portfolio. plus, digium is not only the creator and sponsor of asterisk, they are also a telephony hardware company. i can't see cisco building telephony cards for the open source community to build products that compete with it's own. the only way i can see this acquisition happening is if cisco purchased them just to kill off asterisk. cisco wouldn't go this route though because they would lose the respect of the open source community and it's just not that simple to kill off open source projects (read:forks). i think it's much more likely that digium is eventually gobbled up by a company that is either a strong supporter or open source (ie ibm) to bolster their telephony solutions or someone who is does not have a telephony offering but wants to make a big push in that direction. i personally do not see cisco purchasing digium. why would cisco acquire an open source company that competes directly with one of it’s core competencies? this could potentially steer more people towards asterisk which would cannibalize the sales of their higher margin telephony systems. yes, cisco has dabbled in open source acquisitions in the past (read:jabber) but this would be completely different. jabber was purchased to fulfill a gap missing from cisco’s portfolio.

plus, digium is not only the creator and sponsor of asterisk, they are also a telephony hardware company. i can’t see cisco building telephony cards for the open source community to build products that compete with it’s own.

the only way i can see this acquisition happening is if cisco purchased them just to kill off asterisk. cisco wouldn’t go this route though because they would lose the respect of the open source community and it’s just not that simple to kill off open source projects (read:forks).

i think it’s much more likely that digium is eventually gobbled up by a company that is either a strong supporter or open source (ie ibm) to bolster their telephony solutions or someone who is does not have a telephony offering but wants to make a big push in that direction.

]]> By: Links 17/10/2009: Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 Released; Mandriva Summons Community | Boycott Novell http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/comment-page-1/#comment-105480 Links 17/10/2009: Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 Released; Mandriva Summons Community | Boycott Novell Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:06:39 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5287#comment-105480 [...] Cisco Spots Opportunities, Challenges In Arizona First, some background. Astricon, hosted by Digium, attracted roughly 620 developers, customers and partners focused on the Asterisk open source IP PBX. N-able Partner Summit attracted roughly 350 managed service providers running N-able’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) software. Cisco had a major presence at both events. [...] [...] Cisco Spots Opportunities, Challenges In Arizona First, some background. Astricon, hosted by Digium, attracted roughly 620 developers, customers and partners focused on the Asterisk open source IP PBX. N-able Partner Summit attracted roughly 350 managed service providers running N-able’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) software. Cisco had a major presence at both events. [...]

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]]> By: Cisco’s Asterisk Opportunities and Challenges | Unixster http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/comment-page-1/#comment-105469 Cisco’s Asterisk Opportunities and Challenges | Unixster Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:13:19 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=5287#comment-105469 [...] Cisco’s Asterisk Opportunities and Challenges Saturday, October 17, 2009 By jfeedor Cisco is keeping close tabs on the Asterisk open source IP PBX market. On the upside, Cisco spent time at Astricon promoting VoIP phones and other systems that link into Asterisk. But over time, Cisco will need to closely evaluate its Asterisk strategy. Here’s why. [...] [...] Cisco’s Asterisk Opportunities and Challenges Saturday, October 17, 2009 By jfeedor Cisco is keeping close tabs on the Asterisk open source IP PBX market. On the upside, Cisco spent time at Astricon promoting VoIP phones and other systems that link into Asterisk. But over time, Cisco will need to closely evaluate its Asterisk strategy. Here’s why. [...]

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