Jon's Network

The AV Fight Club at LinuxWorld was an interesting AV comparison sponsored by Untangle. ClamAV, Symantec and Kaspersky came out on top at 100%…Sophos caught 94%. There were only 25 viruses in the sample set. The interesting thing is that I have seen other tests with much larger sample sets that show ClamAV near the [...]

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I believe there is a principle woven into the fabric of the universe that says the more you share your information, the more you will benefit from it. Evidence of this is unfolding before our eyes. The best websites and blogs give tons of information away – and turn a profit. Many corporations give information [...]

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StillSecure has released Cobia Beta 0.2, their open source Unified Networking Platform (UNP) platform. It is available as an ISO or as a VMWare image for Linux or Windows. The dual-use license allows anyone to use and modify it for free as long as they don’t sell Cobia or any modifications of it. ISVs are [...]

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Many vendors promote their "purpose-built" appliances and closed software as a value to the customer.  These vendors have the "plug and play" advantage and you can "set it and forget it". I haven’t been in the industry very long (5 years), but I imagine this appliance trend caught on after Cisco began producing purpose-built routers [...]

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Take 30 minutes and read an excellent presentation given at EclipseCon last week by Brent C. Williams, (temporarily) independent equity research analyst The slides are posted at Stephesblog, a great blog on open source and the software business. My favorite slide: Myths of Open Source Business Models It’s a “weaker” business model than proprietary because [...]

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