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Cisco WebEx, formerly WebEx Communications Inc. is a company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications. Its products include Meeting Center, Training Center, Event Center, Support Center, Sales Center, MeetMeNow, PCNow, WebEx AIM Pro Business Edition, WebEx WebOffice, and WebEx Connect. All WebEx products are part of the Cisco collaboration portfolio. == History == Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu founded WebEx in 1996〔 〕 under the name ActiveTouch.〔http://www.activetouch.com〕 Zhu had co-founded Future Labs (one of the first companies to produce multi-point document collaboration software) in 1991.〔Flannery, Russell. ''Forbes'' ("Rice Fields Yield Internet Riches" ) November 4, 2004〕 Zhu met Iyar, then a vice-president and general manager of Quarterdeck, when Quarterdeck acquired Future Labs in 1996. Iyar was named president of Future Labs, which had become a Quarterdeck subsidiary, and the same year Iyar and Zhu went on to co-found WebEx. On March 15, 2007, Cisco Systems announced it would acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion. Traveling Software which changed its name in September 1999 to LapLink Software Inc., originally owned a software product called WebEx, which shipped to the public in June 1996. The LapLink product called WebEx was a utility to be run as a companion to be used for offline web-browsing, a feature subsequently integrated within most commercial modern-day Web browsers.〔()〕 Traveling Software registered the WebEx trademark in May 1996.〔 (Trademark Status & Document Retrieval ) at uspto.gov〕 In 1999, after the original founder of LapLink returned as CEO, Traveling Software/LapLink.com sold the rights to the WebEx name to the company known as WebEx. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WebEx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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