Now that SFDC is buying Slack, wonder if Cisco will bother anymore with this product.
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Everyone seems to rave about Microsoft Teams
Literally no one I know that actually USES MS Teams "raves" about it. The best that I hear is, "it mostly works".
I don't know many people outside a few corporates who have even heard of WebEx let alone WebEx Teams. Everyone seems to rave about Microsoft Teams and to be honest if you have other MS products then it's a better choice. The other family favourite seems to be Zoom which has boomed this year.
Still, as of one hour ago, it was Webex Teams when I searched for the app.
It's not called Webex TEAMS anymore. Just Webex.
With TCP sockets and some you could make your own WebEx.
Any companies that ditch WebEx and just use discord, for FREE?
Benioff used to be on the Board of Cisco. He knows too much about WebEx to acquire it.
If Slack is worth $27 billion by itself, how much is the Collab BU worth (Webex, CUCM, Video, Teams)? I have to believe there was at least a conversation with Salesforce about buying it.
MS and Cisco copied Slack's interface.
Did Cisco bother with this product anyway? They switched between so many messaging/collaboration apps internally, new leader, new clothes. Hey ho, another lump of billiion$ spunked on trying to keep up.
love google.meet.
When I hear "Teams" I think of the "Microsoft Teams". It is stupid that Cisco named its product Teams.
Slack was never the competition. It’s zoom and Microsoft.
Rowan didn’t start Project Squared — he just screwed it up.
It’s being spun off.
At Cisco, the model is bundle collaboration products with switches & routers. Are customers willing to eventually PAY for teams? Customer adoption is inconsequential if companies are not willing to pay for Teams.
I'm not aware of a singe relevant customer using Teams. Has it been long enough to call Rowen's baby ugly despite the incredible amount of money spent?
Customers have already adopted it (not many, but enough). That will prevent it from being canceled. Also, Webex has no other story vs. Zoom, so even if it is sh– and a failure, it is so invasively integrated into Webex that it can't be k–led.
At Cisco, the model is: infect customers or infect organizations. They succeeded in both.