Collaboration has been a major theme recently at Cisco Systems. It started out with the announced acquisition of "Jabber," a privately–held messaging and presence software company that, in part, serves as the underpinning of the larger Cisco strategy.
"We were really looking for a presence engine that would go across all of our assets, which would be highly interoperable," said Alex Hadden-Boyd, director of marketing for Cisco's Collaboration Software Group. "Many of our large enterprise customers have already decided on a presence engine and have already deployed them, and deployed applications using them. So we were in search of a presence engine that was going to be as interoperable and scalable as possible while also fitting both our on-premise model and our on-demand model."
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