It's true that one of MPLS's goals was to speed up forwarding, and that this is no longer necessary with fast IP forwarding hardware. However, it had many other goals, including separation of routing and forwarding, enabling (1) traffic engineering so that you can balance traffic across your network topology, (2) VPNs with same security as FR/ATM and (3) core router upgrades to IPv6 without changing the forwarding hardware.
As usual, the journalists are late to the controversy - this was a hot topic in 1997 when MPLS was first invented (tag switching, Cisco's proprietary version) and then again a year or two later as the MPLS working group hotted up.
- the infected servers are just DoSed by the number of people scanning them back on a small connection
- IIS is actually running on WinNT/2K Workstation, which has a limit of something like 10 concurrent inbound TCP connections (exacerbated by HTTP/1.1, used by most browsers these days).
I'm not a JavaScript person, but how about writing a bookmarklet to take the current page's URL and query Netcraft for use of IIS and warn the user if it is? Bookmarklets are bookmarks that run small JavaScript programs - more info at http://www.bookmarklets.com/
You are right up to a point, in the way that people make money off the road system but not *from* the road system.
Air travel is also a good analogy - it's hard to lay new roads, whereas creating new flights or flying larger planes is relative simple (just like lighting up dark fibre, or creating extra channels on existing fibre with better technology on either end). Also, private companies don't build roads, whereas they do run the airlines and airports to some degree (depending on the country).
The thing to remember is that if people want the Internet to survive, it will - it's incredibly decentralised. It's not a problem that the Internet's routers may be carrying (a) high-QoS business traffic and (b) digital TV as MPEG2 over IP, as well as (c) today's Internet traffic. IP routers are getting very good at carrying different types of traffic with differing QoS goals - the only impact is that the routers and links are much bigger, and that the (profitable) business and multimedia traffic helps to cross-subsidise the standard Internet type traffic.
Businesses are willing to pay for virtual private networks using IP and (often) MPLS, with QoS. However, these VPNs will run alongside normal Internet traffic - the only impact is that the service provider makes a lot more money from business class traffic, so they can afford to cross-subsidise the consumer market in most cases.
This is already happening, of course - the key point about QoS is that Joe Consumer has no interest in paying for this, generally. However, he might pay for cheaper voice calls, or video calls from a PC/PDA - these may well require QoS.
The reason ATM QoS failed was that it is circuit-oriented and telco-style - you get a single high-grade QoS from end to end, by making an 'ATM call' - and requires ATM everywhere. IP QoS is mainly based on prioritisation at choke points, e.g. the last mile connection, and doesn't have to be everywhere - some networks deliver QoS at the edges but turn off QoS in the core network, because that has so much bandwidth there's no point. ATM would pay the same per-call queuing costs, and signalling costs, everywhere - which is why ATM QoS per-call (using SVCs, switched virtual circuits) never took off. I work for a company that originally planned to map IP onto ATM QoS SVCs - now we do IP QoS and VPNs using conventional IP routers, for which the market is pretty good.
It's already very easy to prevent spoofed source addresses on almost any router. It's just that it's enough of a hassle that most ISPs don't bother.
On any router connecting to customers of an ISP, you just put ACLs (access control lists) on the ingress interfaces that drop packets with the wrong source addresses.
On most Cisco's it's even easier - you just drop packets for which there is no route back via that interface (e.g. if you can't route packets back to 10.0.0.1 via this interface, you shouldn't accept packets with that source address). Linux has this feature as well, since 2.2 I think. Search for 'reverse path forwarding' on Cisco and Linux sites.
IPv6 does not have any more support for QoS than IPv4 (except for the flow label, only useful with RSVP, which is very rarely deployed). I work for a software company that enables people to deliver QoS today on IPv4, and quite a few are happily doing so.
IPv6 does not have 'traceability' - there is an IETF RFC detailing how to have slowly changing IEEE identifiers (MAC addresses) so that your IPv6 address will not include a static ethernet card MAC address. No more traceable than IPv4, and better in some ways.
IPv6 has no more guaranteed delivery than IPv4 - both of them can use TCP to ensure delivery of packets, but IPv6 has no special features in this area.
IPv6 is all about larger address space, easier router/host configuration and auto-configuration, easier re-addressing, better mobile IP, reduced routing table sizes, simplified options processing, and simplified headers. Please read up on IPv6 at http://www.ipv6forum.com before making these misleading statements.
IPv6 will take a long time to happen, and complete stacks are hard to implement - however, most system and router vendors are quite a way down this track, and not all devices/hosts need support all features. The biggest issue is router support, and Cisco is finally committed to an IPv6 roadmap ending in late 2002.
Something like a billion mobile phones will require IP addresses quite soon, and NAT will be enough of a pain that the European 3G standards have mandated IPv6 in UMTS release 5. In other words, without IPv6 you won't be getting IP multimedia on your mobile phone any time soon - this is what will push IPv6 adoption, first in mobile operators, then wireless application hosting networks (W-ASPs), then enterprises, then finally in core networks.
Please tell us exactly how Microsoft's IPv6 is supposed to be 'proprietary as hell'. I'm not aware of any basis for this statement, given that MS Research's IPv6 is interoperating right now with IPv6 from a number of vendors.
Any supposed strategy to make TCP/IP proprietary would be better off starting with IPv4 since that is deployed today. I really doubt Microsoft is dumb enough to attempt this - far more likely that they will try to dominate at the level of.NET APIs and web services such as HailStorm, rendering the standard layer of TCP/IP as relevant as whether you are using USB or Firewire.
I also had an incredibly slow ping time and loss rate to yahoo.com about 9.00 BST (8.00 GMT, 3.00 EST) today - 380 ms pings, and 60% loss rates. Normally I get 180ms pings to yahoo.com and almost no packet loss, so something was definitely happening. Local UK sites were OK, and it wasn't my provider according to a traceroute (I have an ADSL line).
So maybe something did happen - however, the various survey sites report that nothing really major happened, so this was probably just a coincidence (maybe too many people hitting yahoo.com at the same to see if it was still up?)...
I agree about stability of Win2000 - it's a lot better on my laptop, but I still manage to crash it occasionally (most recently when launching Outlook). I don't remember ever managing to crash a Linux or Solaris box.
Nobody knows what applications will really take off - personally, I think that a Java-enabled frontend to 'find me an X' type services would be great. This would be location-enabled, so you can say 'where is the nearest pharmacy/chemist?' and it will show you on a map as well as giving directions. It can also direct you to local cinemas, giving reviews of films, and local restaurants, etc. Great if you travel a lot to various different cities. Vindigo have a Palm-based prototype of this that is already quite useful - you have to tell it where you are in the town, but that part will disappear on IP/Java-ena bled phones.
This is definitely going to be an issue as phones start to support Java apps (midlets) and full IP functionality. The average mobile operator will have to provide firewalling, mobile virus/worm scanning, and so on - most likely in the network so it can be easily updated for new attacks. WAP 1.2 also makes it possible for a WAP script to look up phone numbers, make phone calls, and send SMSs.
Having said that, attacks on the wireless application servers are probably more likely in the short term.
Nokia alone is going to ship 100 million Java phones by end 2003 - Java midlets enable a lot of interactivity, local data storage, etc, useful for games, portfolio tracking, location-based information (like Vindigo), etc. Midlets are Java programs running on the phone and conforming to Sun's MIDP profile on top of Java 2 Micro Edition.
This means that phone makers need a good platform for Java, and for advanced applications depending on IP, multithreading, multitasking, etc. The API visible to the customer will not be Linux, it will be Java MIDP in most cases (though some may enable a Linux API as well). The benefit of Linux is the same as for any other IP-connected device - open source, Unix compatible, good TCP/IP stack, huge set of developers, active community, etc.
Most phones from 2002 onwards (whether GPRS/3G in Europe and Asia, or CDMA2000 in North America) will have a built-in IP stack and will need to run Java midlets. Hence Linux has a good chance of being the underlying OS, even if it isn't visible to the end user. Much as I like Linux, I don't really want to fire up bash on a tiny screen and type a long command line on the number pad:)
There is absolutely no downside for the ISP in allocating/48 prefixes rather than/128 - no extra hardware or bandwidth. The hardware upgrades are due to IPv6, not to the address allocation policy.
What's more interesting is to speculate when most ISPs will offer IPv6 - UMTS Release 5 (the future 3G mobile phone standard for GSM operators) specific IPv6 for all multimedia services, so if 3G takes off this could be a big driver for IPv6 adoption.
I think you are talking about the DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) - this is similar to the network access server (NAS) used in dial Internet infrastructure, except that it's an ATM switch and normally has no IP functionality.
It's true that the DSLAM can be overloaded, in the same way that any link or node in an ADSL or cable network can be overloaded. And of course the upstream link(s) from the DSL/Cable network to that provider's ISP(s) can also be overloaded. However, this is fairly unlikely - now that there is some experience with running DSL/Cable networks it's fairly easy to dimension them. The only caveat is that if all users are running high-demand web servers or streaming media downloads the whole time, the network could be overloaded - this is why access providers have terms of service that enable them to do something about this.
Probably windowsupdate is run on a server farm - one server was hacked, and when you hit refresh the load balancer sent you to another server that wasn't.
Metering is just a way of paying for the roll-outs - even a GPRS roll-out is hugely expensive, and 3G is much more costly.
Unmetered access is a great idea, but Metricom is having troubles partly because its unmetered Ricochet service is not generating enough revenues to keep it expanding. Ricochet's per-month fees are also quite high, and it's interesting to speculate whether a lower fee and some metered charges would have worked better to get people onto the network initially.
I agree about data always being metered (although there may be cheaper bundled plans in the future), but in the UK we already have WAP over GSM with open portals. In fact there was a legal ruling in France that forced France Telecom to open its portal, and I don't see that GPRS will make things go back to the closed model.
Operators do really need to make money, but they'll probably do that by just making it more convenient to use the operator portal, providing really useful services, etc. However, they can still make money off traffic to third party sites.
'Insightful'?? Ricochet doesn't even do voice, let alone video - see http://www.metricom.com/ricochet_advantage/benefit s/enterprise/faqs.html#technology - the network is designed purely for data, which it's very good at.
Ricochet has great bandwidth but quite high latency (you have to send packets from poletop to poletop quite a few times before they hit the low-latency wireline part of the network), so it's not clear you can do VoIP at all.
And in any case Metricom, who are the only Ricochet carrier, are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to the lack of subscribers vs. their huge expansion plans. Their technology sounds very nice, particularly use of unlicensed spectrum, but it's expensive to roll out widely and their flat-rate charging model is unlikely to help.
If you want simultaneous voice and data, you need two transceivers in the phone, which is expensive and consumes battery power. These are known as Grade A GPRS terminals (phones).
What's more useful is a Grade B terminal - this lets you take a phone call but keep your packet data session open. Since GPRS is always-on, like cable/ADSL, you don't really lose anything through this process, as long as your application is able to survive the connection outage.
Grade C terminals are worth avoiding, as they require you to drop either the data session or the voice call.
Freenets and public Wi-Fi (802.11b) in general are not competition for GPRS:
- 802.11b provides up to 11 Mbps in theory (3-5 Mbps in practice, and less if the wireless LAN is connected to a T1 as is quite common), but very little coverage - even when there are thousands millions of Freenets, you will have trouble using a WLAN outside certain urban/suburban areas or from a moving vehicle. Roaming between WLANs is not so seamless, particularly if you are going to bill for access in some way. 802.11b is great for laptops, but the impact on battery life on PDAs is not too great (about 2 hours usage in some cases).
- GPRS provides 10 to 40 Kbps initially, with more capacity as phones and networks improve, but huge coverage (essentially the same as GSM networks, which cover most of the world). Most GSM operators will upgrade to GPRS, a lot have already done so in Europe, and GSM has about 70% of world-wide digital mobile phone subscribers. GPRS is mainly useful for phones (if you think WAP is any use, or maybe i-mode) or more likely PDAs, which have better screens and input. It is designed for extended battery life, not much shorter than GSM phones today.
If anything, WLAN is a competitor to 3G, which has similar data rates but is more expensive. However, those who can afford 3G may well be sold on 3G's better coverage and battery life by using WLANs - think of 3G as 'WLANs to go'.
The report states quite clearly that the bug was in SQL Server 6.5. Of course, it's near impossible to build large scale software without bugs, but at least open source software could in theory be debugged by the end user.
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It's true that one of MPLS's goals was to speed up forwarding, and that this is no longer necessary with fast IP forwarding hardware. However, it had many other goals, including separation of routing and forwarding, enabling (1) traffic engineering so that you can balance traffic across your network topology, (2) VPNs with same security as FR/ATM and (3) core router upgrades to IPv6 without changing the forwarding hardware.
As usual, the journalists are late to the controversy - this was a hot topic in 1997 when MPLS was first invented (tag switching, Cisco's proprietary version) and then again a year or two later as the MPLS working group hotted up.
What I meant was 'a single QoS per call' - I didn't phrase that bit very well.
A couple of possibilities:
- the infected servers are just DoSed by the number of people scanning them back on a small connection
- IIS is actually running on WinNT/2K Workstation, which has a limit of something like 10 concurrent inbound TCP connections (exacerbated by HTTP/1.1, used by most browsers these days).
I'm not a JavaScript person, but how about writing a bookmarklet to take the current page's URL and query Netcraft for use of IIS and warn the user if it is? Bookmarklets are bookmarks that run small JavaScript programs - more info at http://www.bookmarklets.com/
You are right up to a point, in the way that people make money off the road system but not *from* the road system.
Air travel is also a good analogy - it's hard to lay new roads, whereas creating new flights or flying larger planes is relative simple (just like lighting up dark fibre, or creating extra channels on existing fibre with better technology on either end). Also, private companies don't build roads, whereas they do run the airlines and airports to some degree (depending on the country).
The thing to remember is that if people want the Internet to survive, it will - it's incredibly decentralised. It's not a problem that the Internet's routers may be carrying (a) high-QoS business traffic and (b) digital TV as MPEG2 over IP, as well as (c) today's Internet traffic. IP routers are getting very good at carrying different types of traffic with differing QoS goals - the only impact is that the routers and links are much bigger, and that the (profitable) business and multimedia traffic helps to cross-subsidise the standard Internet type traffic.
Businesses are willing to pay for virtual private networks using IP and (often) MPLS, with QoS. However, these VPNs will run alongside normal Internet traffic - the only impact is that the service provider makes a lot more money from business class traffic, so they can afford to cross-subsidise the consumer market in most cases.
This is already happening, of course - the key point about QoS is that Joe Consumer has no interest in paying for this, generally. However, he might pay for cheaper voice calls, or video calls from a PC/PDA - these may well require QoS.
The reason ATM QoS failed was that it is circuit-oriented and telco-style - you get a single high-grade QoS from end to end, by making an 'ATM call' - and requires ATM everywhere. IP QoS is mainly based on prioritisation at choke points, e.g. the last mile connection, and doesn't have to be everywhere - some networks deliver QoS at the edges but turn off QoS in the core network, because that has so much bandwidth there's no point. ATM would pay the same per-call queuing costs, and signalling costs, everywhere - which is why ATM QoS per-call (using SVCs, switched virtual circuits) never took off. I work for a company that originally planned to map IP onto ATM QoS SVCs - now we do IP QoS and VPNs using conventional IP routers, for which the market is pretty good.
It's already very easy to prevent spoofed source addresses on almost any router. It's just that it's enough of a hassle that most ISPs don't bother.
On any router connecting to customers of an ISP, you just put ACLs (access control lists) on the ingress interfaces that drop packets with the wrong source addresses.
On most Cisco's it's even easier - you just drop packets for which there is no route back via that interface (e.g. if you can't route packets back to 10.0.0.1 via this interface, you shouldn't accept packets with that source address). Linux has this feature as well, since 2.2 I think. Search for 'reverse path forwarding' on Cisco and Linux sites.
IPv6 does not have any more support for QoS than IPv4 (except for the flow label, only useful with RSVP, which is very rarely deployed). I work for a software company that enables people to deliver QoS today on IPv4, and quite a few are happily doing so.
IPv6 does not have 'traceability' - there is an IETF RFC detailing how to have slowly changing IEEE identifiers (MAC addresses) so that your IPv6 address will not include a static ethernet card MAC address. No more traceable than IPv4, and better in some ways.
IPv6 has no more guaranteed delivery than IPv4 - both of them can use TCP to ensure delivery of packets, but IPv6 has no special features in this area.
IPv6 is all about larger address space, easier router/host configuration and auto-configuration, easier re-addressing, better mobile IP, reduced routing table sizes, simplified options processing, and simplified headers. Please read up on IPv6 at http://www.ipv6forum.com before making these misleading statements.
IPv6 will take a long time to happen, and complete stacks are hard to implement - however, most system and router vendors are quite a way down this track, and not all devices/hosts need support all features. The biggest issue is router support, and Cisco is finally committed to an IPv6 roadmap ending in late 2002.
Something like a billion mobile phones will require IP addresses quite soon, and NAT will be enough of a pain that the European 3G standards have mandated IPv6 in UMTS release 5. In other words, without IPv6 you won't be getting IP multimedia on your mobile phone any time soon - this is what will push IPv6 adoption, first in mobile operators, then wireless application hosting networks (W-ASPs), then enterprises, then finally in core networks.
Please tell us exactly how Microsoft's IPv6 is supposed to be 'proprietary as hell'. I'm not aware of any basis for this statement, given that MS Research's IPv6 is interoperating right now with IPv6 from a number of vendors.
.NET APIs and web services such as HailStorm, rendering the standard layer of TCP/IP as relevant as whether you are using USB or Firewire.
Any supposed strategy to make TCP/IP proprietary would be better off starting with IPv4 since that is deployed today. I really doubt Microsoft is dumb enough to attempt this - far more likely that they will try to dominate at the level of
I also had an incredibly slow ping time and loss rate to yahoo.com about 9.00 BST (8.00 GMT, 3.00 EST) today - 380 ms pings, and 60% loss rates. Normally I get 180ms pings to yahoo.com and almost no packet loss, so something was definitely happening. Local UK sites were OK, and it wasn't my provider according to a traceroute (I have an ADSL line).
So maybe something did happen - however, the various survey sites report that nothing really major happened, so this was probably just a coincidence (maybe too many people hitting yahoo.com at the same to see if it was still up?)...
I agree about stability of Win2000 - it's a lot better on my laptop, but I still manage to crash it occasionally (most recently when launching Outlook). I don't remember ever managing to crash a Linux or Solaris box.
Nobody knows what applications will really take off - personally, I think that a Java-enabled frontend to 'find me an X' type services would be great. This would be location-enabled, so you can say 'where is the nearest pharmacy/chemist?' and it will show you on a map as well as giving directions. It can also direct you to local cinemas, giving reviews of films, and local restaurants, etc. Great if you travel a lot to various different cities. Vindigo have a Palm-based prototype of this that is already quite useful - you have to tell it where you are in the town, but that part will disappear on IP/Java-ena bled phones.
This is definitely going to be an issue as phones start to support Java apps (midlets) and full IP functionality. The average mobile operator will have to provide firewalling, mobile virus/worm scanning, and so on - most likely in the network so it can be easily updated for new attacks. WAP 1.2 also makes it possible for a WAP script to look up phone numbers, make phone calls, and send SMSs.
Having said that, attacks on the wireless application servers are probably more likely in the short term.
Nokia alone is going to ship 100 million Java phones by end 2003 - Java midlets enable a lot of interactivity, local data storage, etc, useful for games, portfolio tracking, location-based information (like Vindigo), etc. Midlets are Java programs running on the phone and conforming to Sun's MIDP profile on top of Java 2 Micro Edition.
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This means that phone makers need a good platform for Java, and for advanced applications depending on IP, multithreading, multitasking, etc. The API visible to the customer will not be Linux, it will be Java MIDP in most cases (though some may enable a Linux API as well). The benefit of Linux is the same as for any other IP-connected device - open source, Unix compatible, good TCP/IP stack, huge set of developers, active community, etc.
Most phones from 2002 onwards (whether GPRS/3G in Europe and Asia, or CDMA2000 in North America) will have a built-in IP stack and will need to run Java midlets. Hence Linux has a good chance of being the underlying OS, even if it isn't visible to the end user. Much as I like Linux, I don't really want to fire up bash on a tiny screen and type a long command line on the number pad
There is absolutely no downside for the ISP in allocating /48 prefixes rather than /128 - no extra hardware or bandwidth. The hardware upgrades are due to IPv6, not to the address allocation policy.
What's more interesting is to speculate when most ISPs will offer IPv6 - UMTS Release 5 (the future 3G mobile phone standard for GSM operators) specific IPv6 for all multimedia services, so if 3G takes off this could be a big driver for IPv6 adoption.
I think you are talking about the DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) - this is similar to the network access server (NAS) used in dial Internet infrastructure, except that it's an ATM switch and normally has no IP functionality.
It's true that the DSLAM can be overloaded, in the same way that any link or node in an ADSL or cable network can be overloaded. And of course the upstream link(s) from the DSL/Cable network to that provider's ISP(s) can also be overloaded. However, this is fairly unlikely - now that there is some experience with running DSL/Cable networks it's fairly easy to dimension them. The only caveat is that if all users are running high-demand web servers or streaming media downloads the whole time, the network could be overloaded - this is why access providers have terms of service that enable them to do something about this.
Probably windowsupdate is run on a server farm - one server was hacked, and when you hit refresh the load balancer sent you to another server that wasn't.
:)
Or maybe you were just unlucky
Metering is just a way of paying for the roll-outs - even a GPRS roll-out is hugely expensive, and 3G is much more costly.
Unmetered access is a great idea, but Metricom is having troubles partly because its unmetered Ricochet service is not generating enough revenues to keep it expanding. Ricochet's per-month fees are also quite high, and it's interesting to speculate whether a lower fee and some metered charges would have worked better to get people onto the network initially.
I agree about data always being metered (although there may be cheaper bundled plans in the future), but in the UK we already have WAP over GSM with open portals. In fact there was a legal ruling in France that forced France Telecom to open its portal, and I don't see that GPRS will make things go back to the closed model.
Operators do really need to make money, but they'll probably do that by just making it more convenient to use the operator portal, providing really useful services, etc. However, they can still make money off traffic to third party sites.
'Insightful'?? Ricochet doesn't even do voice, let alone video - see http://www.metricom.com/ricochet_advantage/benefit s/enterprise/faqs.html#technology - the network is designed purely for data, which it's very good at.
Ricochet has great bandwidth but quite high latency (you have to send packets from poletop to poletop quite a few times before they hit the low-latency wireline part of the network), so it's not clear you can do VoIP at all.
And in any case Metricom, who are the only Ricochet carrier, are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to the lack of subscribers vs. their huge expansion plans. Their technology sounds very nice, particularly use of unlicensed spectrum, but it's expensive to roll out widely and their flat-rate charging model is unlikely to help.
T-Mobil launched GPRS in Germany in February this year, and Vodafone and Cellnet did the same more recently in the UK.
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Good thing that Slashdot isn't US-centric though
If you want simultaneous voice and data, you need two transceivers in the phone, which is expensive and consumes battery power. These are known as Grade A GPRS terminals (phones).
What's more useful is a Grade B terminal - this lets you take a phone call but keep your packet data session open. Since GPRS is always-on, like cable/ADSL, you don't really lose anything through this process, as long as your application is able to survive the connection outage.
Grade C terminals are worth avoiding, as they require you to drop either the data session or the voice call.
Freenets and public Wi-Fi (802.11b) in general are not competition for GPRS:
- 802.11b provides up to 11 Mbps in theory (3-5 Mbps in practice, and less if the wireless LAN is connected to a T1 as is quite common), but very little coverage - even when there are thousands millions of Freenets, you will have trouble using a WLAN outside certain urban/suburban areas or from a moving vehicle. Roaming between WLANs is not so seamless, particularly if you are going to bill for access in some way. 802.11b is great for laptops, but the impact on battery life on PDAs is not too great (about 2 hours usage in some cases).
- GPRS provides 10 to 40 Kbps initially, with more capacity as phones and networks improve, but huge coverage (essentially the same as GSM networks, which cover most of the world). Most GSM operators will upgrade to GPRS, a lot have already done so in Europe, and GSM has about 70% of world-wide digital mobile phone subscribers. GPRS is mainly useful for phones (if you think WAP is any use, or maybe i-mode) or more likely PDAs, which have better screens and input. It is designed for extended battery life, not much shorter than GSM phones today.
If anything, WLAN is a competitor to 3G, which has similar data rates but is more expensive. However, those who can afford 3G may well be sold on 3G's better coverage and battery life by using WLANs - think of 3G as 'WLANs to go'.
The report states quite clearly that the bug was in SQL Server 6.5. Of course, it's near impossible to build large scale software without bugs, but at least open source software could in theory be debugged by the end user.