Hi Jose, I haven't gotten the official story from SDSC, but I do know that their attention has shifted to iRODS as the next generation storage architecture for long-term data management. iRODS will be 100% open source software (no more dual license) which will be easier for the community to deal with.
My understanding is that the commercial (Nirvana) and non-commercial (plain SRB) are actually the same thing... they just have dual license arrangement for the codebase. So the API that Sun develops *should* also work for your plain vanilla SRB instance too. You can verify that with the SDSC folks (or I can ask them). The DSpace work that we've done at MIT was for the old non-commercial SRB, and we recently got the jargon client for iRODS, so those should be tested with the 1.4.x and 1.5 releases. MacKenzie > I wonder if any one has heard if the academic SRB ( non-commercial ) is > going to be discontinued? We have been discussing using a Honeycomb > server for bit storage, and they have informed us that the academic SRB > is going to be discontinued, so they are not interested in developing an > API for it. They are working on developing a commercial Nirvana SRB > API. I'm assuming that the configurable SRB coming out in a future > release of Dspace is the academic? > > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PluggableStorage ? > > Thank you! > Jose -- MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
