Fasten your Ethernet belt: In the next few years, Ethernet speeds will reach a blazing 100Gbps, 10 time faster than the current 10GbE we all know and love. So says the IEEE, Stephen Lawson reports, and that data-pushing power will come in handy for both enterprises and carriers. Buckle up.
It doesn't add up: Open Sources blogger Matt Asay has a number of patent-related questions about the Microsoft-Novell pact. Among them: If Novell has so many valuable patents and care so much about the open-source community, why isn't Novell using those patents to defend open source as it has promised to do, rather than just its quarterly revenue target?
Posted by Ted Samson on November 24, 2006 06:00 AM
