Cisco Networking

Giving credit where credit is due..."Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.

As companies become more distributed and less centralized in their operations, the need to spread IT out without adding a lot of capital and resource overhead has become a real challenge. One company is trying to address that need with a $100,000 developer contest to build the best applications for the distributed workforce.

Cisco's looking for a few good embedded developers, and it's throwing in fabulous prizes..."Networking giant Cisco is gearing up to expand its Linux platform with a bunch of new hardware. But it won't be a success without developers to build more applications for the platform, so a little romancing is in order.