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BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco

Posted by timothy on from the commoditization dept.

cornfed writes "BusinessWeek is running this article talking about how XORP will take on Cisco's dominance in the router market. The article speculates that XORP could represent the next 'open-source rebellion.' One can only imagine the fallout within the telecommunications industry if an open-source project like this gained traction-- Cisco would not be the only giant to be slain."

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  1. Re:You are convoluted... by _RiZ_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are talking about servers which are all commodity grade these days anyway. Lets put our routing infrastructure on such low grade crap hardware and when the bottom line gets affected due to all kinds of outages and crappy *nix admins, then we shall see how this is going to take down Cisco. No matter what all of the open source pundits say, networking hardware will remain mostly the way it is now because IT folks in big business will not buy into putting their organizations at risk by using xorp.