Cisco's Bold (and Brilliant) Move into Applications

Craig Mathias — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:25:27 -0400

Cisco's announcement today of their new 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine and associated software elements is both terrific technology and an exceptional exercise in marketing - and I mean marketing in a good way. While some fear that the wireless (or at least wireless LAN) opportunity is beginning to consolidate and commoditize, this announcement shows that such is still far from the case, and that innovation with meaningful customer benefits is both alive and well.

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RIM and SAP - Just What I Was Talking About

Craig Mathias — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:49:31 -0400

See, this is just what I meant in my recent entry on mobile applications. RIM and SAP have formed one of those all-too-common partnerships/alliances/whatever (a colleague of mine from long ago used to refer to these as the "rules of engagement") that basically puts SAP code on BlackBerrys. First question - why is the porting of an application such a big deal? Obviously as a hardware vendor, RIM would love to have as much code running on their handsets as possible. This is simply good business, especially if (a) the software vendor pays for the port and (b) no other competing vendor has that specific application. But what's in it for SAP?

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Cisco's Bold (and Brilliant) Move into Applications

RIM and SAP - Just What I Was Talking About