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Apple - LLVM, Clang, and that whole ecosystem is pretty sweet to be involved in now. Wouldn't say it's 2nd rate.

Nicera - From working in Open vSwitch code for a while now, it's very clear that there were talented software engineers with a purpose to build something very real that solved a very real problem... I guess that is the basis of a 'product'.

Arista - FPGA in your switch? Sweet!

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Product wasn't the perfect word to use. I just meant something intended for outside use, as opposed to tools not designed to ever be released, like many internal tools are. I'd even say that the tools you mentioned are more of an external product than an internal tool; eg the whole clang/llvm ecosystem is more of a "product" than an internal tool since apple began using it as part of their iOS sdk.

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