Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

cnet reports on Cisco's entry into the Linux market. "In what might have looked like a publicity stunt around a $100,000 prize for Linux developers, Cisco's Linux development contest was actually a major clue as to just how serious it is about becoming a leading server vendor with a global development community--and soon. Today, Cisco announced the winners of its "Think Inside the Box" contest. The three winning applications are very interesting, but the bigger story here is what Cisco's contest just demonstrated: Most of Cisco's 7 million installed Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) are now servers, for all intents and purposes. The contest proved that server-side Linux developers who know C/C++, Java, or Python can now write applications to Cisco routers with little or no knowledge of routers."

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