PQ Show 18 – Bits Is Bits-Cisco’s Michael Enescu on Open Source & Neutrality – Sponsored

2 December 2012 by Ethan Banks 3 Comments

Cisco contributes quite a bit of code to the open source world, and Michael Enescu, CTO for Open Source Initiatives, is just the guy to tell the Packet Pushers audience about it. In this discussion with hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro, Michael discusses the what, why and how of Cisco’s open source efforts.

What We Discuss

The difference between “open source” and “open standards”.
The open source initiatives Cisco is involved with (Linux kernel, Quantum, OpenStack, etc.)
How Cisco functions internally when dealing with open source projects.
The benefits Cisco customers receive due to Cisco’s open source involvement.
Cisco’s track record of openness.

Links

The Yang of Open Standards, The Yin of Open Source

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About Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations. Ethan is a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over ten thousand listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is also the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net. Follow @ecbanks.

http://twitter.com/metaip Allen Baylis

Opensource and Cisco System should not be used in the same sentence . Cisco Systems = Close proprietary systems
- http://packetpushers.net/author/ecbanks Ethan Banks
  
  Allen, with all due respect, did you listen to this podcast? Are there specific things Michael said that you have an issue with? Or are you just making a categorical, philosophical argument along the lines of “all software should be free”?
http://twitter.com/shamsway Matt Elliott

Anyone else think this guy sounds like Captain Koons? Not a bad thing, just kind of funny.

Who is Greg Ferro?

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.