Open Source on the Wire

“Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications
for business was frowned upon in many circles. Today, you’d be hard
pressed to find any sizeable infrastructure that doesn’t leverage
open-source code in some form or another, be it a few MySQL
databases, Apache on the Web servers, or a pile of Perl, PHP, Ruby,
or Python applications holding things together.

“But there’s one place in the modern enterprise infrastructure
where open-source solutions have yet to make a sizeable dent, and
that’s in the very network that connects all of these
pieces…”

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