Journal Spinlock_1977's Journal: World's first Open Source Clustering Code - Soon by Sun 1
In a world first, Sun will open-source its clustering code. Since the first clusters (IBM) to the generally agreed upon best (OpenVMS), clustering code has long been considered a Secret Sauce in large scale and high-availability computing installations. Does this move by Sun put pressure on other vendors such as Microsoft?
Infoworld has more details here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/27/Sun-donates-Cluster-to-OpenSolaris_1.html
Infoworld has more details here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/27/Sun-donates-Cluster-to-OpenSolaris_1.html
My question ! (Score:1)
This might be a huge gain for Sun , they sell support of the cluster and have multiple groups of people looking at it and improving it.
Not to mention we may see it available on Linux in the future. Which will mean much better Open source tools for admin and monitoring clusters.
I welcome this with open arms ! Another good step in Sun's history.