* Sun to open-source Solaris * Microsoft granted patent on button click timing * Cisco details strategy for Catalyst Firewall Services Module * Wireless broadband system looks toward WiMax * Network World Fusion Radio: Cheap servers * Today on Layer 8
According to open-source legend, Linux arose in response to the high cost and closed nature of Sun’s Solaris. Now it appears Sun is opening up to the idea of shooting the lock off the source code to Solaris. The question is: Is it 15 years too late? Sun to open-source Solaris http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0602suntoop.html?net
According to open-source legend, Linux arose in response to the high cost and closed nature of Sun’s Solaris. Now it appears Sun is opening up to the idea of shooting the lock off the source code to Solaris. The question is: Is it 15 years too late?
Sun to open-source Solaris
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0602suntoop.html?net
Microsoft granted patent on button click timing
Meanwhile, Sun rival – er, partner and close friend – Microsoft is beefing up its own store of intellectual property. This time the company has patented a mechanism for launching applications in different states depending on how a button is clicked.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0603microgrant.html?net
Cisco details strategy for Catalyst Firewall Services Module, anti-DDoS gear
Cisco Wednesday outlined its technology and pricing strategy for a new version of the Firewall Services Module that has so far been free for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches as a way to set up “virtual firewalls” at switching points.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0602cisco.html?net
Wireless broadband system looks toward WiMax
Although standardized products that are expected to drive down the price of WiMax wireless broadband gear may be as much as a year away, Alvarion Wednesday used the Wireless Communications Association conference in Washington, D.C., to roll out equipment that it said can be easily upgraded to support the emerging standard.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0603wirelbroad.html?net
Network World Fusion Radio: Cheap servers
We kick June off with a look at which vendor – Dell, HP, IBM or Sun – offers the least expensive Intel-based server. The results may surprise you. Tom Deane, an analyst at Illuminata, joins us to discuss his research into the topic. Available in Windows Media and Real formats.
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0603radio.html?net
Today on Layer 8, a coffee break for your noggin:
Meet one CEO who truly regrets IT outsourcing; Cell phones are good: They help catch terrorists; Cell phones are bad: Man divorces wife over cell addiction; Delta bag handlers go wireless; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
