30,000 Cisco users affected. Reportedly 1 customer affected. If they leave it shutoff will anyone really complain?
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I always heard there are more Cisco users than all non-Cisco combined. Just wondering when Amy calls time of death of this RT catastrophe.
I always assumed Cisco was the only Spark user, with perhaps a few customers getting a free trial. I'd bet that the vast majority of the daily users are Cisco employees, do they publish metrics on their average daily user metrics? Haha...yes I doubt it, but does anyone know?
@Vk90maP-5gkx: My experience with Zoom was just the opposite.
It was hard to figure out the UI, how to share your screen and how to get rid of the huge box that was supposed to show the video from everyone's web cams that were all turned off. Every time I wanted to launch it, it would not launch and I'd have to uninstall/re-install before I could use it. Once I quit it, it would not re-launch.
But, I have to say that the latest version of Web-Ex have become much worse as far as UI goes.
i recently used zoom for the first time (to give a interview outside cisco) and was very impressed by its UI , smoothness and function.
webex looks fairly dated and clumsy now.
Cisco sure had a good thing with WebEx. But they screwed that up royally with the obsession to neutralize Slack (of all things) with Spark, at the expense of paying attention to WebEx. Now Zoom is all the rage, which is basically the same thing as WebEx, but with a company supporting it. Back in the day when all this was going on under RT, it was blasphemy to express concern about WebEx versus the ambiguous vision of Spark. It was Cisco's to lose, and they did.
if Cisco Spark goes down, does anyone care?
I still use it to chat with the unlucky who were not paid to leave...
from the messages posted officially on spark, you can see the confidence level of the people who is posting it: "all engineering teams are laser focused...." "all engineering teams are engaged"...
you can vividly see a shaking personal writing the above to try to please his/her own boss,, and to have entire org engaged to fix a outage shows how depleted talent is at Cisco..
grade 4/6 skill set now isa grade 10/12 due to eliminated all the senior = older folks.
time to suffer ...
keep shooting the foot..
It was down for 72 hours, are you kidding me? That is clear evidence no one is using this software outside of Cisco.
Spark who
Now we know the answer to the question, if Cisco Spark goes down, does anyone care?
no.
Collaboration was messed up from tops down - RT and his cronies drove down Cisco Collab into the gutters. Have the guts to point blame in the right direction.
I thought already the spark has got off. Collaboration is all time hype..... great Indians.