I figured since I don’t have a job right now the least I could do is post every once and a while. It looks like CISCO is trying to get in to the application market. C|Net is reporting that
At its Cisco Networkers customer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Cisco detailed the first products from its Application-Oriented Networking (AON) unit, a widely anticipated initiative meant to move the company beyond its core Internet routing business and into messaging middleware.
It seems that they are going to rely heavily on XML for this. It’ll be interesting to see how this works out.Continuing with the computer news, Linus Torvalds has an interview over at the Silicon Valley blog. It a good article, a little long for my liking though. He talks about how he doesn’t see Microsoft going away anytime quick, it just has too much market share. He seems to think that is going the way of IBM.
In many ways I think MS is in the same situation that IBM was in two decades ago, losing control of the basic market — and thus the dominance of the market — but not necessarily going away or even necessarily shrinking.