Thursday, November 6, 2008

Cisco Developer Contest

This hasn't had enough attention yet: Cisco is inviting application developers who "think outside the box", to innovate and promote the concept of the network as a platform. This is your opportunity to build exciting Linux based applications on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), and win a share of the total prize pool valued at US $100,000.

Read more at Cisco's contest site.
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4 comments:

  1. JurjenNovember 7, 2008 at 6:41 AM

    Actually, it is "Think inside the box".
    Maybe a rainbow table to crack passing SHA encrypted passwords, and automatically send warning mail to the victims, before the fraudsters do?

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  2. Noah GiftNovember 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    I actually brought this idea up when I interviewed with Google for a networking position. I also worked a company that is doing something close to this in Python. Plus, the book I wrote for O'Reilly kind of scratches the edges around this, in Python.

    I agree with the premise. There is going to be a datacenter OS. I thnk Python is the right language for the job too, as you need a language that is quick to develop in, like Python to deal with the dynamic nature of the datacenter. I suspect SNMP will play a huge role, which btw, I covered in my book in Python, I think the only book ever to cover that topic :)

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  3. networkfanDecember 1, 2008 at 5:53 PM

    Hi there,

    This is a great opportunity to trigger innovation on an open platform.

    But I feel that in a world where we are increasingly seeing software offered as a hosted service, it becomes really critical that there is a strong tie between the network and the applications, more importantly in a secure manner.

    What the world really needs is an open network platform. I would like to see the likes of Google, and Cisco push towards such an open platform - Open up the network APIs, Google development infrastructure APIs...


    I haven't look into the details, but looks like they are hosting Linux platform in their routers and opening up the APIs..
    and I think they have vmware support as well..


    Cheers,
    networkfan

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  4. Guido van RossumDecember 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM

    Irony oh irony: Cisco is being sued by the FSF: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2008-12-cisco-complaint

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