Nickname: Rupojit

Review: What I believe, MS is not much sign of danger for Cisco..Its IBM. As IBM is also a big software gaint also they are coming in networks, at this present time they are understanding and working with Cisco, but I am sure soon they will come with their own networking solutions which may hurt Cisco because IBM is much more experienced in networks then Microsoft.

Date reviewed: Aug 9, 2007 7:47 PM

Nickname: Winblows

Review: Cisco and Microsoft? Are you nuts? This will not help consumers. Get rid of Microsoft software. It is the root of all gross inefficiencies and insecurity.

Date reviewed: Aug 6, 2006 6:48 AM

Nickname: bb

Review: Does anyone have any leads on jobs creating video for cell phones/iPod? Thanks, Brian Brian@yespictures.com

Date reviewed: Nov 16, 2005 12:17 AM

Nickname: Harrisloeser

Review: As a Unified Telecommunications service provider, we have been successfully dancing with and between Cisco and Microsoft for five years. We built our service on Cisco's CallManager and have very successfully integrated it with MS Exchange and some of our own proprietary VXML to create real unified communications that get strong support/interest from both Cisco and Microsoft. When our customers open MS Outlook, all their voice, fax, and e-mails are sitting in their Outlook inbox. This does not have to be a zero sum game. There are huge opportunities for Cisco and MS to cooperate(or at least work side by side) to grow the whole market such that both monster companies benefit. Remember in the VoIP area the revenue is getting clawed away from CLECs (mostly) and there is plenty for Microsoft and Cisco to share. If these dudes can keep their egos in check, they can mutually take over the old Bell business over the next 10 years.

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 11:39 PM

Nickname: ITPRO

Review: IBM is the second largest software company, NOT cisco sys.

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 6:35 PM

Nickname: rams

Review: Cisco needs MS applications to drive the demand for bigger data pipes and MS needs scaled up network infrastructure to provide seamless collobarative applications. So we can expect these companies to collabrate more than compete.

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 5:13 PM

Nickname: sillyrabbit

Review: Your "MSFT makes software, Cisco makes hardware" generalization indicates that you are not the "IT Pro" that your handle suggests. Cisco happens to be the 2nd-largest writer of software code in the world -- behind MSFT!

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 4:34 PM

Nickname: Amber Ved

Review: :)) Funny, the idea appears far-fetched. But if true, should worry Microsoft... They have enough and more on hands!! Even as Internet becomes more and more dominating, Microsoft would have greater worries from Yahoo, Google, & AOL than Cisco. Cisco been major network infrastructure provider will only benefit from the movement. And war with Microsoft in long will do more good to them. Also if center shifts to internet, Cisco might have more problems from Intel, AMD, than from Microsoft. Intel, ADM, IBM and likes may like to active take part in providing greater processing power on server side & network infrastructure in-turn break into the domains of Cisco and Juniper.

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 3:43 PM

Nickname: IT PRO

Review: Microsoft makes software, Cisco makes hardware, there's no collision. Maybe collaboration. Microsoft has Google to worry about and Cisco has IEEE 802.16 to worry about.

Date reviewed: Nov 15, 2005 5:55 AM