On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:23:03PM +0200, Arne Morten Johansen wrote: > That being said, I think it's sad that the project is fading away. > Commercial alternatives are so expensive. Like $100-200 per user. Sadly our > economic situation is not so good that we can afford to support this > project, then it would just be cheaper to go commercial. I think a project > of this magnitude needs at least $150 000 to get started again and attract > new developers.
Good mail from Samuli. I were interrested about contributing adito some time ago. But when I dig deeper into source I did find same problems. Most discouraging experience were when I was studying Erlang programming language same time with Adito and found out how easily same problems could be solved with Erlang. Actually I think that Nortel built their own similar solution top of Erlang OS web server called YAWS (http://yaws.hyber.org/contribs.yaws). YAWS has ssl support, integrated json support and Linux-PAM authentication - so it supports any authentication Linux supports. I did check out YAWS source code and found out that turning it to Adito replacement would be quite simple (at least when comparing to JEE solution). Actually there is already yaws_revproxy.erl module in YAWS git tree. As usual nice gui would be the biggest job. Agent of course needs to stay JAVA. So I am happy about Samuli's new job and agree with his opinnions, but maybe questioning Arne's view about 'project magnitude' :) (Not that I am going to start such Erlang project, just being smart ass and sharing my findings.) -kontro- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Openvpn-als-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-als-devel
