Comments on: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire PostPath http://blogs.cisco.com/ar/cisco_announces_intent_to_acquire_postpath/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Al Mulnick http://blogs.cisco.com/ar/cisco_announces_intent_to_acquire_postpath/#comment-11709 Al Mulnick Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:06:44 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/chile_creating_irreversible_momentum#comment-11709 I don’t think one can argue that email is important to an organization. I do think that one can argue that email is fast becoming a commodity between RIS type services and the various players in the market. The most difficult issue to date has been to provide secure, fast, reliable, spam-free, and cheap email services to end users via a client that they want in an easy to use way. I think that this acquisition is very interesting and merits watching Cisco more closely to see where they take this.

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]]> By: Terry Sanders http://blogs.cisco.com/ar/cisco_announces_intent_to_acquire_postpath/#comment-11691 Terry Sanders Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:06:44 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/chile_creating_irreversible_momentum#comment-11691 Email is probably THE most important application and PostPath’s system to blend into an existing Exchange system, use Active Directory, and get away from that antiquated Microsoft email database where it requires a massive effort to restore emails. Yeah, I can see how this could be a good move for Cisco. I see where users like Outlook but system people hate Exchange.

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]]> By: Peter Brockmann http://blogs.cisco.com/ar/cisco_announces_intent_to_acquire_postpath/#comment-11652 Peter Brockmann Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:06:44 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/chile_creating_irreversible_momentum#comment-11652 This deal stinks. Email is one of the most important applications and therefore one of the least likely to be replaced. Good luck winning share. It’ll end up costing Cisco lots more than $215 million. Here’s my post on the Cisco gets Email?“

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