OK then, here goes: BMC (My employer) is doing a series of new, Open Source, source forge hosted, free-as-in-no-charge products, and I have the pleasure to be involved in one of them. It is called VMLMAT, and that is a snazzy, marketing aware acronym for Virtual Machine / Linux Management and Archive Tool. hey: its free.
You can download it here: *http://vmlmat.wiki.sourceforge.net* There is information on the Source Forge Wiki about it. There are blog entries about it here: http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-michael/ron-michael/Open-mainframe http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-michael/ron-michael/copy_of_zclone Those are from the guy that wrote VMLMAT internally, Ron Michael. Here is one from me: http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-carl/steve-carl/VMLMAT-BMC-Open-Source-tool VMLMAT was written by Ron, who is in our interal R&D support IT department, not in R&D. I was his manager at the time, which is how I got involved. This is released under the BSD license so it is very wide open, but it is my hope that some VM / Linux shops will write new features for it and contribute them back if they can, ala the SHARE tapes of old. Ron will be adding new feature/function as it is required internally and releaseing it to the project as well. One last point and I'll quit wasting the bandwidth here: This tool is not in any way related to either the Distribution Manager, nor the VM Cloning Tool that BMC used to sell. No shared code. Not even really solving the same problem. OK: I lied: One last point: I am sure that VM / Linux shops around the world have solved and re-solved the same set of problems that we did with VMLMAT, with internal tool sets. What I hope to acheive here is just the ability to share, and to give back to the community. I hope I have stayed inside the bounds of list protocol with this.... Steve Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://on-being-open.blogspot.com Blog @ BMC: http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-carl/steve-carl/ On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 10/21/2008 at 3:39 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harder, > Pieter" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not being a vendor but a customer I agree in general with David's point > of > > view. Though I imagine that people like Mark and Brad, being frequent > helpers > > on this list without commercial intent, might a get a bit more latitude > when > > mentioning commercial solutions by their employers. > > But didn't say anything about commercial products. Steve asked about free > and Open Source. To me, that's a pretty safe topic area for discussion. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
