Not a troll question, I'm honestly curious. I've never seen anything on the internet even mention Spark that wasn't a blog/post/article, a sponsored ad, or obvious puff piece. Last year there was an outage that lasted several days...My guess is that their user base is 100% paid users. My team at Cisco doesn't even use Spark, we use a third party app
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There are literally thousands of orgs use it, including really big names. Just because you don’t see that in the news/net doesn’t mean it’s not being used/successful.
(I work on the Teams and have visibility to the exact numbers/customers etc)
Yes, there were at least a few enterprise customers that used it. That said, their attitude was lukewarm and they bought it because it was packaged with other things. The product had loads of hidden bugs and problems that Cisco loves to cover up, but they are out there wreaking havoc on poor middle management saps because execs wanted a sparkflex plan rather than an EA plan.
IBM, Ford, McDonald’s all have hundreds of thousands of active users.
Does Rowan still use it? After 6 years of work and untold amount of money it has became a Cisco internal tool.
only a Tennessee based hospital and evangelical church in South Carolina
"tomorrow starts here"
From one of the sales sources:
Him: "we're selling spark licenses like crazy, it's growing revenue"
Me: "sales != adoption"
Him: disappeared
I work in the TAC team which supports Spark and Webex Meeting server. Yes there are customers who use spark, and they are slowly making everyone move from Jabber to spark.
Correction: "I've never seen anything on the internet even mention Spark that wasn't a PAID blog/post/article"