Cisco and Microsoft CEOs Share Vision for the Future of the Industry Q&A: John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, and Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, discuss the future of technology and the imperative for the two companies to work together to deliver interoperable technology to customers.
Participating in discussions today in New York, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will share their views on the future of technology and discuss their plans to strengthen their collaboration to meet customer demands for improved interoperability between the network and software solutions that the two companies provide.
Today?s events include a discussion between Chambers and Ballmer, moderated by television interviewer and journalist Charlie Rose, and an executive roundtable where the two CEOs will sit down with CIOs from leading enterprise companies to better understand how Microsoft and Cisco can work together to help businesses succeed. As part of today?s discussions, the CEOs will talk about the four industry trends that customers are asking the two companies to address and they will highlight seven specific technology initiatives where Cisco and Microsoft will focus their efforts.
In a Q&A for PressPass and News@Cisco, the two CEOs discuss how Microsoft and Cisco are working together and how the two companies can collaborate in many areas, even as they compete in others.
Q: What will you discuss in New York?Â
Ballmer: We?re two very competitive companies, and there tends to be a lot of media attention paid to how we are competing now or where we might compete head-to-head in the future. When so much of the focus is on who is going to win in markets like unified communications, say, or in Internet-driven television, what is often missing is the amount of work that we?re doing on interoperability?on just how much collaboration there is between the two companies to make our solutions work better together.
Chambers: Our overall goal here is to make very clear to our customers that despite our competition in some areas, customers remain our overall focus. We need to articulate more clearly how and where we are working together to minimize interoperability challenges. Our customers are demanding this, and when customers talk, we listen.
Q: This is the first time the two of you have shared a stage in this way. Do these meetings in New York signal the beginning of something new for the two companies? Continue At Source
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