Over on "The Workspace" (a blog from Cisco), I ran across a post today mentioning their expansion of their "Cisco Unified Personal Communicator" (not the catchiest of names - but better than their typical hardware naming convention) on Apple's OS X platform, just in time for today's news from Apple on a good many other things, which I won't go into here (but you can see at apple.com).
Seems that Michael, the author of the entry, has seen a rising tide of Mac adoption within OS X, and of course the business world at large - must be the "halo effect" of iPods, iPhones, etc.. Since the bread and butter of Cisco is in providing a neutral network and management capability for things running ON the network, it's great to see them walking the talk, and delivering solutions that take advantage of modern platforms (Leopard - OS X, Vista - Windows) to move ever closer to converged communications (still a long way to go, but we're getting there).
I would've simply commented about this on their blog, but seems the commenting engine doesn't think the blog entry exists!
PS - as someone I'd stumbled onto via Twitter mentioned earlier today, interesting to see this news, in the face of the spat/lawsuit last year when Apple announced the iPhone at MacWorld San Francisco 2007 (same timeframe as this week), which, at the time, was a trademarked name for a Cisco product! Whoops... The times they are a-changin'!
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