I also thought their vision was interesting. They were also talking about SAP-related projects. Let's see what the community thinks and then we will decide on next steps.
D. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: >> We have been contacted from #ubimic (http://ubimic.org/en/ ) if we >> (ESME) would be interested in working with them. The idea would be >> that we would be associated as an associate partner and perhaps >> collaborate on projects with them. > > Very interesting, I found this on their vision statement: > > # sensors, machines, things and processes sharing data and status messages > # aggregated data from people and things > > Seems quite similar to what actions try to accomplish in the context > of different integration scenarios. > >> I don't know whether there are legal considerations involved (since we >> are a Apache project) but I just wanted to get a feeling from the >> community if we should pursue this or not. > > Legally they don't even need our "permission" to take our code and > build on it, which is the nature of the Apache License. > > Seeing that they have goals quite similar to ours, it would surely be > interesting to see what they can offer ESME. Since ESME is not meant > to be used as a central service provider, many scenarios surely > consist of customizing ESME to the needs of the specific organization. > If people want to use ESME, this should be a good thing. > > Vassil >
