Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Cisco to acquire Latitude Communications

Cisco Systems <A HREF="http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,87065,00.html">will acquire Latitude Communications Inc</A>. Cisco agreed to pay approximately $80 million cash for all the outstanding shares of publicly held Latitude, an enterprise conferencing company. Computerworld reports that Latitude's software already can be closely integrated with Cisco's IP phones and CallManager software for IP call control, Proctor said. It also has been integrated with enterprise applications such as Microsoft Corp. Outlook and IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime.

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