Cisco buys Jabber

Cisco has announced plans to purchase presence and messaging specialist Jabber. The additional features Jabber brings in play will be integrated into Cisco's WebEx Connect and UC offerings.

Jabber purports to have a carrier-class best model for presence and messaging, and offers operability with a range of common presence products, such as AOL AIM, Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM Sametime.

This acquisition is one of many recent purchases by Cisco intended to bolster its software offering. Other buys include WebEx, IronPort, Securent and PostPath.

All Jabber employees will become a part of Cisco Collaboration Software Group, part of Cisco's larger software group which manages UC products, the IOS operating system and SaaS offerings.

Terms of the deal were not made public and it is expected to be completed in the first half of fiscal year 2009. 

For more:
- see the Cisco press release jabber 

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