Cisco To Open-Source New Messaging Protocol

Esther Schindler writes "Do you use SOAP, CORBA or EJBs? You might want to take a look at Etch, writes James Turner for CIO.com. It's language-, platform- and transport-agnostic, and Cisco is planning to release it as open source. Certainly, it offers some technical benefits: 'In addition to a simplified configuration, Etch also promises less overhead over the wire, compared to SOAP. In a testbed environment where SOAP was managing around 900 calls a second, Etch generated more than 50,000 messages in a one-way mode, and 15,000 transactions with a full round-trip, company officials stated.' And the open source part? Cisco is in the process of deciding what license to use. 'The intent is to use a less restrictive license than GPL, perhaps Apache or Mozilla. This is to allow commercial developers to incorporate Etch into products without licensing issues. A final announcement on the licensing decision will be available in the next month.'"

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I'm 2 n00b

[FurtiveGlancer]

Someone please add the tag 'suddenoutbreakofcommonsense' to cover the licensing decision.

Re:I'm 2 n00b

[jhines]

I'm not fluent in the language, but there has to be a word in Yiddish for just this.

He wrote this article on his PDA

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Um, what?

[Timothy Brownawell]

How does one "open source" a protocol? There's no source to open, just a specification.

*reads article*

Ah, it's actually a set of libraries that use a new protocol.

Re:GPL

[Anonymous Coward]

Highly respected Slashdot Community member? There's an oxymoron somewhere, my friend.