It is used in Cisco's email and web security appliance, which is also their hosted offering. This appliance was previously known as IronPort, before being acquired by Cisco.
Have you caught anyone deciding to go with Cisco instead of BSDs on their servers or their laptop?
I'm serious here: Open source isn't a zero sum game.
Partially thanks to the permissive license of BSD we now have both Mac OS and JunOS (edited: it said Cisco first), which is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The problem with Chrome isn't that it exist but that it has been forced upon us and the fact that we know they have used questionable methods to establish it as the dominant browser.
Which one? They have dozens of “OSes” across their various products.
Cisco IOS is absolutely not based on BSD - it is a proprietary kernel, and such that it even has a “userland”, a proprietary userland.
IOS XE is based on Linux.
Most of the voice stuff is Linux.
Perhaps you are thinking of Juniper’s JunOS, which is based on FreeBSD?
ASyncOS is a fork of FreeBSD.
It is used in Cisco's email and web security appliance, which is also their hosted offering. This appliance was previously known as IronPort, before being acquired by Cisco.
I'm sure that's definitely what the parent commenter was thinking of.
I don't know. But if so, what?
Have you caught anyone deciding to go with Cisco instead of BSDs on their servers or their laptop?
I'm serious here: Open source isn't a zero sum game.
Partially thanks to the permissive license of BSD we now have both Mac OS and JunOS (edited: it said Cisco first), which is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The problem with Chrome isn't that it exist but that it has been forced upon us and the fact that we know they have used questionable methods to establish it as the dominant browser.