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Cisco Spots Opportunities, Challenges In Arizona
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| First, some background. Astricon, hosted by Digium,
| attracted roughly 620 developers, customers and
| partners focused on the Asterisk open source IP PBX.
| N-able Partner Summit attracted roughly 350 managed
| service providers running N-ableâs remote monitoring
| and management (RMM) software. Cisco had a major
| presence at both events.
|
| [...]
|
| Cisco will have three choices:
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| * Cisco could ignore and dismiss Asterisk,
| asserting that it isnât a business option.
| Microsoft made this mistake in the early days of
| Linux and is now paying the price. Ciscoâs
| presence at Astricon suggests Cisco wonât make the
| same mistake in the Asterisk market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/10/16/cisco-spots-opportunities-challenges-in-arizona/
Cisco faces competition also from Vyatta. Commodity threat....
Running the IT of a company with Open Source software only?
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| Many people have wondered whether running a company
| using Open Source software is possible. The answer
| is âyes we canâ. Does it make sense though? Well, it
| depends.
|
| There are good alternatives for almost every
| important commercial software available today. Are
| they able to beat the commercial proprietary
| software? Maybe yes, maybe no. Are they good enough?
| Most of the time, yes. But of course it depends on
| the actual requirements.
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http://www.eosdirectory.com/blogs/2009/10/16/running-the-it-of-a-company-with-open-source-software-only/
Recent:
Cisco Contest Milepost on Journey to Open Innovation
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| Bernhard Beckmann's Team BugsBernie from
| Germany won US$20,000 for their
| Integrated Surveillance System
| application. Basically, their app turns
| an IP phone into a silent
| microphone/monitor that tracks noise
| levels in the room. If their is too loud
| a noise (based on a configurable decibel
| level), a notification is sent where ever
| you want: a security company, the actual
| owner of the room, whomever. Oh, and try
| to pull the cord out of the phone, and
| the alarm goes off, too.
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/117241-cisco-contest-milepost-on-journey-to-open-innovation
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight
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| I wrote about Cisco's contest last June as Cisco's
| way of paying developers to stick a finger in the
| Microsoft eye with a $100,000 bounty for writing
| Linux-based applications for its AXP (Application
| Extension Platform).
|
| I clearly underestimated Cisco's ambitions.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10370165-16.html
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