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Cisco Turns Routers Into Linux App Servers

Posted by Soulskill on from the tux-service dept.

symbolset writes "InternetNews is reporting that Cisco's new Application eXtension Platform turns several models of Cisco switches into Linux application servers. With certified libraries in C, Java and Perl, developers will be able to use a downloadable SDK to build their apps. The AXP server is just another module in a Cisco switch running Cisco's own derivation of a modern Linux distro (Kernel 2.6.x) specifically hardened to run on that particular hardware. Modules will include up to 1.4-GHz Intel Pentiums with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive."

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  1. Why buy cisco anyway? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hopefully this will convince even more boneheaded people buying hardware ("I only trust vendor X") that linux is ready for primetime.

    Which in longer run inevitably leads to question, why buy hugely expensive specialized devices from cisco or some other brand if you can do it just as well with general hardware and freely available linux/bsd distros.

  2. Re:What I want from Cisco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you applaud them for doing something truely nerdy? who the fuck are you? it's by their grace that you have the word nerdy in your vocabulary. another slashfag trying to think that he's something more than he is. it's fucking cisco, not some off-brand shit from thinkgeek.
     
    if you're so fucking high and mighty why don't you work on a solution yourself instead of pulling your dick and playing wow?