The Flat Planet and a Phone !

By now you probably saw the post on Techcrunch that the Big C has bought up Jabber.com.

Just to set the record straight, they have bought the jabber.com team and not of course the jabber open source project. For those of us who are not familiar with Jabber, there is a good definition on Dean Collins blog.

There still is the question, what does that mean for future development of Jabber. What are Cisco’s intentions? How will this work out, after all Cisco culture may be a little foreign for the Jabber geeks, but it will be interesting to follow!

One of the better comments I saw on this acquisition was on Techcrunch by Remko Tronçon -

Wow, talk about how confusing bad wording in an article can be. It was mentioned before, but Jabber, Inc. is one of many *companies* that was built around the XMPP (also called Jabber) protocol, and was acquired by CISCO. Compare it to buying a company called “Web, Inc.”, which does not mean you buy HTTP and can do whatever you want with it.