Jabbisco
Ah, TechCrunch. Is there anything you can do? Don Reisinger gets it completely wrong in his posting:
Cisco announced
today that it has acquired Jabber
This is so flawed as to be laughable, and very well sums up the quality of research and fact-checking that goes into a typical TechCrunch story. Still, XMPP is colloquially referred to as the “Jabber protocol”, so this kind of mistake is almost forgivable in the form of, say, an uninformed Slashdot submitter.
Luckily, we have Jack Moffitt to clear things up for us; Cisco is acquiring Jabber, Inc, not the protocol. Meanwhile, Saint Peter has stepped up to quiet any rumors or innuendo vis a vis the impact this acquisition might have on the XSF or Jabber, Inc morale:
I’m excited to be part of the Cisco team, and I think the whole community will see even more good things happening because of their support.