ain't nobody buying AI podz, AI Canvas, AI defence, AI Webex
ai canvas is a year too late and full of nasty (soul crushing) security flaws and bugs
ai podz are crazy expensive for a rack server + gpu
ai defence is yet another promising acquisition crushed under the fatty folds of cisco bureaucracy
and who the heck uses webex?
"fatty folds of Cisco bureaucracy" is comedy gold, sir Mick
@qx And this type of thinking is why Cisco is in the sh-t
@dx afaik Cigna uses Webex
cisco out acting like they invented AI
Market Share for web conferencing
Zoom: 56%
Microsoft Teams: 32%
Cisco Webex: 11%
market share for enterprise contact centers:
Amazon, Genesys and (wheres Cisco??? 10th?)
Zoom is superior overall for AI capabilities in 2025, particularly for hybrid and general business use cases. Here's why, substantiated by the data:Superior Performance in Core Functions: The TestDevLab benchmark shows Zoom leading in transcription accuracy (36% fewer errors than Teams, 27% fewer than Webex), meeting summary quality (highest score), and real-time response speed (nearly 2x faster than Teams, 13% faster than Webex). These metrics are critical for reliable hybrid meetings, where quick, accurate AI reduces frustration and boosts productivity.
Broad, Cost-Effective Access: Unlike Teams, which gates advanced Copilot features behind an expensive add-on license, Zoom's AI Companion is bundled free with paid plans—making it more accessible for teams without deep Microsoft ecosystems. Webex offers strong inclusions but lags in raw performance.
Balanced Feature Set with Innovation: Zoom covers essentials (summaries, translations) plus proactive tools (e.g., whiteboard generation, cross-app insights) and upcoming 3.0 enhancements for agentic workflows. It edges Webex in meeting-focused AI (e.g., faster responses) while matching Teams' productivity aids without the licensing hurdles. Webex shines in enterprise contact centers (e.g., AI Agent automation, burnout detection), and Teams excels in Microsoft-integrated environments (e.g., agent facilitators), but Zoom provides the most versatile, high-performing toolkit for diverse users.
If your needs are Microsoft-centric (e.g., heavy Office integration), Teams could be preferable despite its costs and slightly lower benchmarks.
I Could name some fairly significant accounts… some of them with over 100m/yr in collab spend so yes. Never mind all the government and DoD.
I mean you can say that, but I can say in my group that is most definitely not true - selling a lot of UCS and GPU solutions - now what I will say is the financing is a little questionable… seems like these funds are basically propping up these companies that result in lots of orders… I think ultimately it all ends up consolidated into the hands of 3 or 4 players though.
OpenAI Stargate needs 10 new nuclear reactors. guess how many are being built (they take 10 years)
its a ponzi scheme and they know it.
zero
@qx
nope.
Microsoft Teams and Zoom are both FedRamp.
They are increasing their federal footprint by leaps and bounds every day.
rumor that the Doj, Federal Reserve and everyone going full price war that will crush crisco
damn near half of DoD and federal government use webex. Cisco will always have that safety blanket
Besides internally at Cisco, are there any large corps using Webex as the primary collab software? Or is it just call centers at this point?
I would appreciate some more pumping prior to the Nov 15 vest date, tyvm
Pump & dump baby!
AI defense was a promising acquisition? I don't think they have done anything worthwhile.
Clearly, written by a human. AI can't drop bombs that hard.