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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.'"
Innovation.
American, shut up. You don't understand anything because the United States lost the edge on technological development long time ago. You are just a joke in Germany, India, China or any other place that is really creating something new.
So, pathetic American, listen up: protocols are also made of development stacks (which are pieces of code that work on enabling any sort of applications to use that given protocol to communicate). So, if you have closed source protocol stacks that means you will need to pay for someone on order to obtain those stacks to code your application communication patterns.
So, this is not only "open spec" but also "open source". And I have been on the beta test group for etch and I can say it is revolutionary.
So, stupid American, now go back to your millionaire mom's basement, and go play WoW, because you just gave another reason for the 6.3 billion people in this planet that already hate your country, and people, to hate you guys even more.