Microsoft's New Linux-Based Wireless Network

[RaZoR1394]

Microsoft's New Linux-Based Wireless Network
 

MECC points to an article about

• Microsoft's new wireless network. From

the article "The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's
shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes
Linux-based network appliance." Microsoft has partnered with Aruba
Networks for a large corporate wireless LAN deployment, involving 277
buildings and 5000 access points, 'all Linux based.'"

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1748249

Microsoft needs some explaining to do.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Explaining ? ... they used non-M$ stuff before ... both Linux and Mozilla ... they know they blow goats.

[pofnlice]

They used to have a linux based server as a prebuffer to all thier systems...

They've been doing things like this for years. If you ran a multi billion dollar organization, wouldn't you secure your data with the best available software

[KernelPanic]

They used to have a linux based server as a prebuffer to all thier systems...

They've been doing things like this for years. If you ran a multi billion dollar organization, wouldn't you secure your data with the best available software

Not quite... that was akamai tech, who were in turn delivering Microsoft's content.
Anyhow, minor point.

[worker201]

What's bizarrely ironic about this story is the fact that a lot of wireless networking cards are barely supported by Linux itself.  Linux makes good transmitters, but the receivers are all Windows.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Kind of makes sense. The transmitters are connected to Linux servers as it's the best OS for this application. The network cards are mostly sold to consumers, who mostly have Windows PCs so they mostly have Windows drivers

This is a similar situation to a samrt battery charger developed by the company I work for, it's run by embedded Linux but all the software designed to interface with it is Windows only, it might be run by Linux but you can't configure or program it from a Linux PC, it has to be Windows.