In a troubling sign for Microsoft's key Windows franchise, businesses and government agencies continue to snub the latest version of the operating system, Vista, despite the fact that it's been on the market for almost two years and has been significantly upgraded via a full service pack meant to solve a range of performance issues.
The ongoing shunning of Vista is even more surprising given that its predecessor -- Windows XP -- is, for the most Read the rest of this entry »

Cisco has been talking about the "network as a platform" for a long time, but what does that actually mean, and what does the AXP network module have to do with it?
The Cisco Application eXtension Platform (AXP) is made up of a hardware card (three different models), modified Linux software that runs on the card, and a program for software developers. You could also say that the AXP represents "network virtualization".
In 2007, I wrote the article, Read the rest of this entry »