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An open source company, Vyatta, has taught Cisco and the market that a networking box is really nothing but a computer with software.
Now Cisco is returning the favor, with boxes that combine the functions of networking, computing and storage.
What Cisco learned from open source | Open Source | ZDNet.com

Exchange may be the last true gem in Microsoft’s proprietary software crown. Is that finally about to change for good?
Last year, Cisco made waves with its acquisition of PostPath, a hosted, Linux-based groupware solution. At the time, quite a few pundits declared that PostPath could evolve into a truly compelling alternative to Exchange, thanks to [...]

The lawsuit between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco may be critical in shaping the future of the open source ecosystem, according to legal experts closely watching the saga’s next stages.
The FSF filed its legal complaint against Cisco last month, alleging that the networking giant violated the terms of the GPL, or General Public [...]