If Cisco Talks, Does A Tree Fall in the Forest?
by Paula Thornton
Forgive the mixing of metaphors…
While there are announcements all the time, occassionally one seems like it might sway a neuron or two. I was struck that way by the proclamation of John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, that Web 2.0 is the future and that Cisco is “moving our company as fast as we can to collaboration and Web 2.0“, at Interop 07 keynote [related video, 6:21 edited]
I think the difference is not just the talk, but the commitment of action, and the correspondingly claimed velocity toward that goal. He also reiterated that this is a people problem, not a technology problem. This latter message was echoed in the panel discussions from the recent RAVE (I’ve got great notes I plan to share and comment on shortly).
John’s been spinning his Web 2.0 religion more recently. See related coverage: CRN, CRN: collaboration, Giga OM, Computerworld.
