Dave Rosenberg writing in Cnet’s Negative Approach blog raises an interesting point about Cisco’s acquisition of Jabber: Jabber was largely open source. Rosenberg notes that Cisco has made no mention of this fact: “I would assume that’s because open source is ‘accepted’ at Cisco, Rosenberg writes. He adds: “Cisco looks for acquisitions that would bring in $300 million or more of revenue (anything less isn’t very material to the bottom line) and open-source companies are nowhere near that. However, with Cisco’s massive brand power and ability to put pretty much anything into a box, they could easily monetize all kinds of open-source projects.” Rosenberg cites a couple of other open source companies that could fit into Cisco’s business. “Maybe Cisco will jump ahead of the traditional software players and consolidate the open-source ecosystem,” Rosenberg concludes.
Buying up cool open source start-ups would certainly help to accelerate Cisco’s software goals.
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