Cisco Buying Jabber--The Open Source Connection

by Sam Dean - Sep. 19, 2008Comments (0)

As GigaOm notes today, Cisco is buying instant messaging service Jabber for an undisclosed amount. Many of the news stories on this are missing the open source connection--or the almost open source connection. As Stacey notes in the GigaOm story, "Jabber is based on Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), the same protocol being used by several open-source IM implementations." Matt Asay also does a nice job of clarifying that Jabber uses open technologies, but has never been 100 percent open source. Find more at GigaOm.

 


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