Microsoft & Cisco, sitting in a tree....

When Microsoft and Cisco announced an agreement last year to co-ompete, people wondered if it was real or fluff.

I lauded the agreement as two giants letting their constituencies know what the planks in their relative platforms were. (Hey, it's the election season.)

Last week, the first fruits of the new arrangement was announced: the embedding of Windows Server 2008 into a line of WAAS appliances manufactured by Cisco.

Just how cool is this?

For branch offices, this is a boon, and a product that you should add to your testing and validation plans for the coming year.

I fully expect the delivered product to to be a winner, from both an integration and a revenue-generating standpoint. After all, it is a product of Microsoft and Cisco.

From Telecom Paper

• Cisco
• Microsoft
• Cisco WAAS
• Windows Server 2008