Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Aviv Shaham
Some thoughts: - This move is great news for any mid-market+ ITSP with a proprietary tech stack and royalty-free softswitch, such as Jive. Any of the large ISPs contemplating moving away from Broadsoft may shop around and scoop these up. - This is very bad news for non-ISP providers on the

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Their Phoenix office is in the same building as one of my offices. I almost went there today. It's not tall enough for anyone to jump out of a window, but it could have been fun nonetheless. Perhaps Cisco can perfect Broadsoft's use of WebRTC to enable synergistic collaboration with Slack over

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Ivan Kovacevic
C'mon now guys. Cisco could very well turn Broadsoft into a billion dollar company. Best Regards, Ivan Kovacevic Vice President, Client Services -Original Message- From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: October 23, 2017 3:14 PM To:

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Alex Balashov
As you said, in this particular example, I really don't know what impressive spectacle will take place if you hold Cisco's beer... it may be one of those things where the kid says, "Look mom, watch this!" and then something prosaic, underwhelming and anticlimactic not-happens... On Mon, Oct 23,

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Challenge: How to take a company that hates its customers and sees greed and manipulation as a core principle, and make it worse? Cisco: Hold my beer! On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:57:39AM -0700, Carlos Alvarez

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Alex Balashov
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:57:39AM -0700, Carlos Alvarez wrote: > where Cisco buys out a good company, let's say Meraki, turns it to > crap, In this case, lots of assumptions there about the existing status of what has been acquired, about the validity of the comparison. not_crap -> crap is a

Re: [VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Brian Murray
Very shocking news to say the least. A strange vibe here at the 2017 Broadsoft Connections for sure. Very curious to see how this pans out. I do agree that this would bode well for other players in this space, but honestly for how long. Everyone is ultimately for sale. Brian J. Murray

[VoiceOps] Cisco acquires Broadsoft for approx the GDP of Belize

2017-10-23 Thread Ryan Delgrosso
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-broadsoft-m-a-cisco-systems/cisco-buys-broadsoft-for-1-71-bln-in-software-push-idUSKBN1CS02Q I cant say im surprised but in this day and age i suspect there will be far less technical synergies than anyone is hoping for. I suspect this bodes best for