3Com On, on what is the question

You may have seen all the press a couple of days ago around the launch of 3Coms Open Services Networking (OSN) program accompanying 3Com On partner program. Phil Hochmuth over at Network World has a good article up on it.  Basically, 3Com is seeking to tackle Cisco and Juniper in the router market by making a Linux blade that will run inside their router.  Using VMware and such, they want to run a bunch of different apps that can benefit being near the router and network. Sounds like a good idea.  It would be good to see 3Com win back some market share, after some rough times over the past few years.  Maybe the Tipping Point folks would even be proud to say they are part of 3Com.   

The article talks about a few of the partners 3Com has lined up that will run in this environment.  One company absent was StillSecure.  However, a perusal of the 3Com On web site under security solutions shows StillSecure listed as a partner for our Safe Access NAC product. In fact clicking on the StillSecure link takes you to a page on the 3Com site that tells all about Safe Access. Including the fact that Safe Access was tested and certified on their 5500g model.

So why were we not mentioned in any of the press articles or press releases.  I think the answer lies more in Tipping Points own NAC plans (I am sure we will hear more about this soon, maybe even RSA which is shaping up as a NAC-fest) than anything else.