Mats Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>SUN/NetDynamics have decided to kill the ND product line.
Wow! Is it true? tell me news-URL to believe in this.
>End of support for ND 4 is October this year, but I
ND4 is not newest version.
>suspect some of us will have to keep ND 4 and 5 sites running for
>quite some time.
The fastest version is ND3.
>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).
They event don't open source Solaris...
>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 :-).
Sweet dream!
>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?
I certainly join you.
>Does anyone volunteer to maintain an on-line CVS repository?
Sorry, i don't. But i think it would be great.
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