Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 0:58 UTC (Fri) by mikov (guest, #33179)
Parent article: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

The analysis in CNet doesn't make a lot of sense to me. According to it the two things that Cisco lacks to really win developers are x86 and Windows.net compatibility. WTF?

Apparently this is not really Linux running in the router itself (naturally) - but inside the Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP), which "is a Linux server blade that plugs into Cisco routers and runs a Cisco hardened Linux running a 2.6 kernel." (according to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10113633-16.html ).

So this is not bad, but since the AXP is additional and not every router has it I don't see how it is that different from an ordinary Linux box/blade/etc. Just this one is manufactured by Cisco.

May be someone cares to explain?

Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 9, 2009 3:07 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (2 responses)

If it's from Cisco, it's part of the Network Operations budget, not part of the Application Servers budget. And Network Operations can say, "we're expanding the router to add (functionality)" instead of "we're buying a server to do (functionality)" so they don't set off the company Server Buying Process. Slick.

Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 9, 2009 12:51 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

It's funny because it's true.

Buying a server on the down low

Posted Oct 10, 2009 3:00 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

In both the US and UK, and probably elsewhere, when old sailing warships got past the point of economical maintenance, money for new ships was hard to get, but money to overhaul old ships was available, so they'd strip the old ship down to nothing, reuse one timber from the keel or just a small scrap, build an entirely new ship, and call it an overhaul.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.