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Cisco wants peace with Microsoft | |
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| Time: 05:31 EST/10:31 GMT | News Source: VNUNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Customer demand is driving Cisco to prevent a clash with Microsoft, but the networking giant seems uncertain about whether the firms can avoid a confrontation. Cisco chief executive John Chambers said in a meeting with reporters at the Cisco Networkers user conference in Anaheim, California: "My customers want me to work with Microsoft. They do not want to see us collide in a non-constructive way." But in admitting that it will be hard to prevent a market clash as both companies are expanding into each other's turf, Chambers pointed out that companies often have a poor track record in combined cooperation and competition. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (72.89.75.26) at 7/26/2007 1:00:07 PM |
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sure..like Microsoft is worried about Cisco
basically Cisco sees that it is losing market share and is trying to find a way to not become word perfect |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/26/2007 3:12:53 PM |
| Wha?? I didn't realize that Cisco was about to start making an OS and office suite, and that MS was going to make routers. |
| #3 By 48398 (130.13.158.96) at 7/26/2007 10:13:16 PM |
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#2, this is probably about VoIP products. Both of them have offerings in that market. Also, with IPTV just around the bend, there's going to be wicked fierce competition for both the content distribution and set-top markets. This post was edited by Crand2 on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 22:26. |
| #4 By 3653 (68.52.54.161) at 7/26/2007 11:42:41 PM |
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Exactly Crand2. Its about VoIP and the crapload of hardware costs associated with it.
War is inevitable. And cisco is running out of companies to buy (not really. i'm just commenting on their general business strategy). |
| #5 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 7/27/2007 5:44:48 AM |
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#3,4 and Rally technologies, UPnP-x, management systems, all rolled up into software/network aware hardware and vice versa. It's pretty awesome stuff, too - watch how Windows Home Server talks to and auto-configures a router for remote access, its secure website and HTTP Post supported file transfers and you'll catch a quick glimpse of where it is headed. Stepping it up a bit, take a look at an edge transport server and how it works to support secure communications on behalf of remote, even unjoined clients, as it delivers directory information via an XML autodiscover file. It's all so elegant and easy on end users that Cisco likely saw it, lost control of their bathroom parts, and called for a truce.
Compared to the kludge like stuff Cisco has been offering, Microsoft's hardware aware software and networking tools are good poetry. MS is going to leverage this stuff to support unified messaging [VOIP on steroids] and HD Media/On-Demand Media and gaming services. BTW, when you run Vista and use this stuff, you really "get it" and can see just how much more advanced Vista is over XP. It makes things like auto and dynamic configuration of not just clients, but routers, possible and in support of things like Meeting Space over the Internet where IPv6 packets are supported over IPv4 networks. It's slick stuff. Microsoft needs to start an "Yeah, it's in there..." marketing campaign that shows how this stuff works and how it can make distributed computing and networking "apparent" in the minds of people by simply showing how the stuff is used day to day and what it means to them. The point being, one would be hard pressed to find a tech that is not "in there." |
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