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alan shimel · 2 years ago

Thomas- I wrote about this when the article with Bob G first came out and then when they changed the story. At first I thought the same thing. But if you look most of the stories about Bob saying this are from the one interview he did. It could be he was talking about Cisco's intention to one day turn this over and the reporter misunderstood. Would not be the first time it happened. Anyway, I wrote more about it at my blog http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/as...

paul roberts · 2 years ago

Interesting, but I'd say you're inferring a bit much Cisco's use of a spokesperson. Gleichauf is "out" at Cisco -- as in "out on vacation" this week, which is why he wasn't available to clarify for the NWW story.

Fortunately, I spoke to him on Friday, prior to his leaving, and got it straight from the horse's mouth. You can read about it here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/21/HNcis...

From the InfoWorld article: "Where I misspoke was speaking in terms of CTA going open source as if that's a given, and that was incorrect. That was my mistake," Gleichauf told InfoWorld last week. "It has been part of a discussion of a number of different options available to us, but it's not a viable option at this time," he said.

A more circumspect Gleichauf said that in earlier comments he was just speculating that CTA might be turned into an open-source component. "Open source was one thing that's a way of dealing with various components as work toward an integrated solution," he noted "

From what I can tell, Bob's job is safe -- though I think he had some 'splaining to do after the interview he gave me at RSA. My guess: even if Cisco was considering throwing CTA open source, there's no way they're going to do it anytime soon, given the blow up over this.