On 10/2/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But get into something like cluster management. Linux-HA completely > falls flat compared to say HP ServiceGuard, or Veritas Cluster, or Sun > Cluster. Cluster management and load-balancing is a TOUGH job. > Oracle's cluster solution (Oracle Cluster) is only second-tier in this > market, behind the above-mentioned ones. What more a small-community > Open Source project? >
This is because the expertise is locked up in oracle. In open source projects the knowledge get shared and refined and then applied several hundred times over. Thats what happened in gcc and linux. You eventually end up with more experts than when you started. This example is a historical artifact. Not enough research has been done by the open source community yet. This companies invested in supplier lockin via licensing and hoarded the knowledge. Thats why they are big. But the knowledge is trickling out and eventually they will lose their competitive position. -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
