TechNewsWorld.com June 21, 2005 HARDWARE Cisco Enters Middleware Market with AON Initiative By Jennifer LeClaire TechNewsWorld 06/21/05 10:38 AM PT Cisco is planning to introduce two new messaging and integration products later this year. The company said computer maker IBM and enterprise resource planning software maker SAP AG would integrate products with AON. New, feature-rich hosting plans offer 99.9% uptime and FTP accounts for Unix or Windows. Annual plans start at $9.96/mo and include a domain name! In a move that takes Cisco Systems into the middleware market, the company today unveiled plans to develop technology designed to enable networks to support intelligent decisions based on business policies. Technology developed under the initiative, dubbed Application-Oriented Networking, or AON, also supports application needs by integ

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