This got me thinking about how collaboration fright may be the biggest barrier to an idea called mesh collaboration that Andy Mulholland, CTO of Capgemini, and Nick Earle, senior vice president of European markets at Cisco Systems , developed in their recent book of the same name.

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Cisco does not oppose the merger, but believes the European Commission should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based interoperability, to avoid any one company from being able to seek to control the future of video communications.

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American multinationals from Ford, General Motors, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola and McDonalds already feel the pinch from European austerity, while Southeast Asian and Latin American multinationals are feeling the pinch of currency wars.

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