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March 15, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Cisco buys WebEx...maybe now it will actually work

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The big news today is Cisco's $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx.

Just as Microsoft has increasingly focused attention on the SMB market, Cisco is engaging in the same behavior here. Cisco wants to find a growing market for its products, which dominate the networking field but may be slowing in sales among larger customers.

Several reports about the agreement mention the conferencing and document sharing possibilities WebEx offers. Another WebEx feature deserves mention and could be just as important to certain firms as the more highly publicized features.

WebEx allows the sharing of remote desktops across geographical differences.

All great. The deal makes sense on a range of different levels.

But the one I'm hoping for is that maybe WebEx will actually work now. We're already in the process of cancelling our account due to shoddy technology - it crashes all the time, maybe in part because Alfresco's US team is almost entirely on Macs.

We're moving to Adobe's Breeze product, and would have moved to dimdim if it were out of alpha.

Cisco: Please fix WebEx. It lacks a feature that I need: stability.

Posted by Matt Asay on March 15, 2007 08:44 AM

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