SUN/NetDynamics have decided to kill the ND product line.
End of support for ND 4 is October this year, but I
suspect some of us will have to keep ND 4 and 5 sites running for
quite some time.
I suggest that SUN/NetDynamics as a final (as in finally, at last, for
once)
gesture of good will releases the source code of ND as open source
(or community source or whatever they prefer to call it).
Wouldn't it be great to have a slim single-process version of ND,
no locator, no VisiBroker, no security, no f..ing licensing and
an in-process PE (GDBM mapped on UNIX, so you could do cycling,
sw-upgrades,
what have you w/o loosing session state :-).
We could deploy lots of them and do IP load-balancing with session
affinity
and probably have a more robust and scalable solution the current. More
predictable anyway.
We could make ND 5 work on linux and do the load-balancing with a
low-cost linux
cluster solution.
Yes, it could compete with SUNs regular product line, but the ND
APIs are dead APIs, so no-one in their right mind would ever
start developing on this platform. I just feel that we who have
invested in NetDynamics deserve better.
What do you think?
Does anyone volunteer to maintain an on-line CVS repository?
/Mats
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