We just had a phone conference with Sun and the developer for the commercial version of SRB at Nirvana ( Tino ) and were told that the commercial version of SRB they have developed is not the same as the academic SRB. One thing they have developed is file system based SRB which *should* work, and we are going to try it out.
Thanks for this information! Jose -----Original Message----- From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:37 AM To: Blanco, Jose Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Academic SRB support 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
