The announcement that Cisco will open up IOS was dismissed as mere vaporware by Dave Roberts - vice president of open source networking vendor - Vyatta in his blog - Open Source Juicer yesterday.
Was the Cisco open IOS announcement just a knee-jerk reaction to the Juniper opens up to third-party development announcement two days earlier?
Dave states in his blog:
With that out of the way, Juniper proceeds to catch Dave's ire:
"Essentially, if you're a big company, and Juniper decides that you're worthy, Juniper will give you the privilege of signing an NDA and paying it a yearly fee in order to develop applications that will run on the control plane processor or line cards of its router."
"Basically, Juniper's program as an invitation-only affair, like a snobby country-club that would never be so crass as to allow the riff-raff into the building."
"If you're interested in developing to Juniper's PSDP (aside: am I the only person who says 'piss-dip' there?), you can apply, but Juniper has to feel that you're 'worthy' enough to be accepted."
"Once they decide that you're good enough, you get the privilege of signing a bunch of legal paperwork and paying them a hefty fee."
"After all that, you can write programs in the JunOS-variant of FreeBSD and for their forwarding engine processors."
Is Cisco's announcement vaporware?
Is the Juniper program really just a snobby country-club?
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