It's a pleasure for me to announce that the WinPcap project just moved to a new bigger home. CACE Technologies, sponsor and employer of part of the WinPcap team, has been acquired by Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD).
Riverbed, located in beautiful San Francisco, CA, is a fast growing company that develops WAN optimization solutions and IT performance management products. The people working at Riverbed definitely know what happens on a computer network; and this is definitely thrilling! As some of you already know, the WinPcap project started about 10 years ago because of the need to run tcpdump on a Windows machine. Both tcpdump and libpcap were therefore ported to the Microsoft operating system, giving birth to WinPcap and WinDump; the two projects included the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) inside their core engine. BPF and libpcap were created by Steve McCanne, co-founder and CTO of Riverbed. This acquisition will close a circle started years ago at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, the place where WinPcap started. I expect very little changes in the WinPcap project. I will remain the official maintainer of the project and keep running things in the same way you are all used to. What will change are the additional resources that a bigger company as Riverbed can provide to make WinPcap better. CACE Technologies was co-founded by Loris Degioanni, the original creator of WinPcap. Without the amazing community of WinPcap users that contributed to its success, CACE would have not existed in the first place. As CACE Technologies, we thank you for having been with us through all the years. And now as Riverbed employees, we are committed to provide you with the same level of quality. Feel free to ask any question you might have on this mailing list or at [email protected] and we will be happy to answer them. Gianluca Varenni WinPcap Team Links: http://www.cacetech.com/ http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2010/press_102110.php _______________________________________________ Winpcap-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users
