[News] Cisco to Release Piece of Software as Open Source

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Cisco Systems' New Client/Server Messaging Protocol Announced

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| Are your developers using SOAP, CORBA or EJBs? You might want to take a look
| at Etch. It's language-, platform- and transport-agnostic, and Cisco is
| planning to release it as open source.
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[url]http://www.cio.com/article/365513[/url]


Recent:

Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?

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| At the heart of Vyatta is VC4, a Linux-based networking system the company
| claims offers better performance than Cisco gear at a fraction of the price.
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| Early, pre-release views are ecstatic. You have VPN support, QOS
| functionality, even traffic-shaping. Download it here.
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[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2417[/url]


Cisco: Networking Is Hot Again

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| Network operating systems are also keeping the networking market hot. Cisco
| has recently expanded its operating system lineup to now include IOS, NX-OS
| and Linux. IOS is Cisco's core internetworking operating system that powers
| many of its switches and routers, while NX-OS is a purpose built OS for
| Cisco's Nexus core switching platform.
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| As for Linux, Cisco is using the open source operating system in various
| areas including the AXP module that turns ISR routers into Linux app servers.
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[url]http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3744611[/url]


Cisco's Linux-Based ISR Opens Road For Customized Solutions

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| At the Cisco Partner Summit 2008 in Honolulu, the San Jose, Calif.-based
| networking heavyweight unveiled the Cisco Application eXtension Platform Â*
| (AXP). The AXP consists of open, Linux-based Cisco ISR hardware modules for
| application development and hosting to support a tighter integration of the
| network and applications. Â* Â*
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[url]http://www.crn.com/networking/207401900;jsessionid=ZUMTBK0MOZ5D0QSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN[/url]


One Router to Rule Them All

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| It's not that often that I get to do first-hand, on-the-scene reporting, so I
| was somewhat surprised last week to open an email from one of Cisco's PR
| reps, offering the opportunity to report an announcement of interest to the
| Linux and Open Source community. Being the curious sort, I couldn't pass up
| such an opportunity. Â* Â*
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[url]http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/one-router-rule-them-all[/url]


Cisco Reaches Out to Application Developers

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| First, let’s review the market landscape: Cisco and Microsoft both want to
| dominate the unified communications market. To do so, they will need
| independent software vendors (ISVs) that write applications for their
| respective platforms. Â*
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[url]http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/04/10/cisco-reaches-out-to-application-developers/[/url]


Cisco Turns Routers Into Linux Application Servers

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| Networking goliath Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is now opening its Integrated
| Services Router (ISR) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
| platforms to become Linux-based application server platforms. The move could
| have wide-ranging implications, as Cisco's gear has millions of deployments
| that now can be leveraged to serve applications directly. Â* Â*
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[url]http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3740106/Cisco+Turns+Routers+Into+Linux+Application+Servers.htm[/url]
[url]http://tinyurl.com/6abfj3[/url]


Related:

Cisco offers up safe mapping tool as open source

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| This is the first we've come across an open source tool from Cisco. What are
| the others it has offered?
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[url]http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18481[/url]


Chambers: We're Not Plumbers Anymore

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| In response to a question about Cisco's views on open source posed
| by internetnews.com Chambers responded, "I think that open source or
| open content is the future. You want to be able to create your own
| content and we want to do that empowerment."
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[url]http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3684241#49977821313266324796[/url]


Cisco finds that it's not so easy working with Microsoft

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| Apparently Microsoft has "taken limited steps to share users' presence and
| availabilty information," for fear of losing its ability to own all of the
| client. Â*
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| Someone should tell Chambers that in reality it's not so easy working with
| Microsoft. Â*
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[url]http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19726?ts0hb=&story=ht[/url]


Cisco CEO Says Microsoft Screws Its Partners Everytime...Just Like Apple.

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| If partnering with Microsoft is not a win-win then it must be a win-lose…in
| Microsoft’s favor of course.
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[url]http://www.ceosmack.com/2007/07/25/cisco-ceo-says-microsoft-screws-its-partners-everytimejust-like-apple/[/url]
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 04:48:43 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Let us know when they release the source code to their proprietary IOS
software.


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