Cisco Completes Acquisition of Jabber
November 3, 2008
Today marks a significant step forward for instant messaging technology, with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Jabber is the leading provider of open standards-based instant messaging technologies that fully supports inter-domain instant messaging federation. The technology driven by Jabber, called XMPP, enjoys wide industry support, with dozens of clients and servers that support the protocol, not the least of which is Google's GoogleTalk product.