FreeBSD at Cisco

[Brian]

Royce Williams wrote:
> I'm not a Cisco employee, but this Slashdot thread today:
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/15/2016241
>
>
> ... made me curious about FreeBSD at Cisco.  There were a number of
> jobs that seemed to be primarily FreeBSD-oriented, including jobs
> relating to ports/package maintenance, kernel development and server
> management.  Here's an example job posting:
>
> http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=824944&CurrentPage=2
>
> -----
> Cisco's Open Platform Software Technology Center is looking to a
> maintainer for the userland packages of our internal FreeBSD distribution.
>
> The next generation of Cisco's products will be powered by Open Source
> operating systems and will be built from Open Source components. Our
> team will build the core technology used in a wide variety of Cisco
> products.
>
> The ideal candidate has strong C programming skills, and is an
> active contributor to the FreeBSD or other open source community.
> Experience building and maintaining Linux or FreeBSD distributions is
> a plus. Experience with network protocols and network devices is
> also a plus.	
> -----
>
> Could be some good opportunities for FreeBSD folks.
>
> Royce
>
>   
Juniper is doing something similar.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204802963&cid=nl_tw_networking

Brian