InformationWeek recently reported on Cisco integrating Jabber’s Extensible Communications Platform (XCP).
With the addition of these capabilities, Cisco’s communications platform gains a capability missing from competing offerings from IBM and Microsoft, according to Jabber CEO Paul Guerin: multiuser chat. “IBM and Microsoft don’t even offer multiuser chat at this point,” he says.
Jabber XCP is an open, real-time presence and messaging platform that makes communication easier by streaming XML data. The company has done similar integrations with Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (formerly Macromedia Breeze) and WebEx.
It’s great news because Jabber XCP is an awesome open messaging platform and other companies (like Google) use it as their standard messaging protocol. However, the reason it’s extra cool to me is that my friend, Ben Schumacherhad a big hand in developing and setting up the technology possible for the deal to go through with Cisco. So congrats to Ben!