Thursday, February 12. 2009

Presence is not present in Business - Yet

Presence technologies - those that manage when and what sort of messages come to a user based on a variety of factors including time and location - while fueling buzz three years ago, are not yet making a place for themselves in business.

Colin Gibbs explains, "it has yet to catch fire when it comes to business messaging. While a few startups have fallen by the wayside — Tello folded only a year after coming out of stealth — others have been acquired by a few big players that can afford to take a longer view of the market. Cisco Systems Inc., for instance, snapped up Orative in 2006 in a $31 million deal, and the company last year acquired Denver’s Jabber for an undisclosed sum."

For now, experts suggest, presence will take a back seat to other technology priorities during the economic downturn.

- RCR Wireless News

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 07:45 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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