In his column Paul Murphy talks about Poject Crossbow in OpenSolaris. A very good article that shows he understands the importance. It is all about networking; you can now run a virtualized NIC in your zone/container, from the hardware to the application and more.
What you could do with expensive Cisco machinery is now available in a machine with opensource software and a few gbit interfaces. Imagine a Coolthreads servers with a few containers as he says to do all your networking traffic... Jonathan hinted to new cheap open source things coming in networking in November – after attacking high database licensing costs with MySQL. And remember Andy Bechtolsheim is on one of his missions with a startup in networking...
After ZFS, dtrace and self-healing another compelling reason to choose OpenSolaris, and maybe soon do to your network what FishWorks is doing to your open storage ...
Check out everything you want to know on the OpenSolaris website's project.
