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Collaboration Software: Cisco Toys With Competing Against Office

But it doesn’t want to compete against Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services or their ilk

By Maureen O'Gara
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July 10, 2009 08:15 AM EDT
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Cisco is threatening to elbow into the $60 billion Office space with a WebEx-based collaboration service that lets business users create and share documents, perhaps by linking up with Zoho or Google Apps.

It’s unclear whether Cisco has progressed past “thinking about it†but, according to SVP of collaborative software Douglas Dennerline, it’s decided it doesn’t want to compete against Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services or their ilk because it would have to build big, expensive data centers and compete with its own customers (at least the ones not already ticked off by Cisco’s entry into servers).

Besides it’s feeling kinda squeezed out.

It says it wants to play in SaaS and sell its Unified Computing (maybe shipping, maybe not) blade servers to service providers and enterprises as cloud infrastructure, not build its own rentable “raw capacity†cloud.

On the other hand, it will build a cloud to run SaaS and chase what it calls the “intercloud†or hybrid cloud, which bespeaks interoperability.

WebEx, which Cisco bought for $3.2 billion two years ago, includes, or soon will, online meetings, hosted e-mail (from Cisco’s PostPath acquisition) and instant messaging (from its Jabber acquisition).

It currently hosts 220,000 meetings a day on nine data centers. Cisco said it’s repacking the widgetry to appeal to more than just the early adopters.

The global collaboration market is supposed to be worth $34 billion a year according to IDC.

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