John Cherry is the roadmap coordinator for the Carrier Grade Linux initiative at OSDL. He has managed kernel developers locally and has
coordinated initiative activities around the world for over two years at OSDL. John has over 20 years experience in enterprise computing and
system software at companies such as Floating Point Systems, Sequent Computer Systems, and IBM. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology.
Public and commercial
Linux distributions
already contain most of
the functionality
expected by most users
from their computers.
However, when it comes to
Linux establishing a
beachhead on the desktop,
the battle turns to
applications,
applications, and more
applications.
By John Cherry; Takashi Ikebe; Terence Chen; Steven Dake
A transformation is
taking place in
telecommunications to
meet the demands of new
voice and data
technologies. These
technologies include
Voice-over-IP (VoIP), the
packet-switched
alternative to
old-fashioned
circuit-switched
telephony. To enable VoIP
traffic,...