Hi, Am 09.09.2011 um 14:13 schrieb Mark Dixon:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, William Hay wrote: > ... >> I don't think Fritz was claiming that the open source versions were >> massively buggier just that all the versions were buggy enough that >> we'd be better off with a support contract. He probably also has a >> better idea than you or I about the viability of funding grid engine >> development purely from support and consultancy revenues on a pure >> FLOSS product. > ... > > On a slight tangent, I'm still confused as to why there are so many projects > based on the Grid Engine codebase. > > Oracle Grid Engine existing as a separate entity I can understand for > commercial reasons. Ditto for Univa Grid Engine. > > Where things seem a bit strange is where it looks - from the outside, where I > am - like we have several open source projects that aren't coordinating with > one another: a Univa open core, Son of Grid Engine and Open Grid Scheduler > (apologies if I've missed anyone). > > I'm still a bit fuzzy on what differentiates the efforts, and am concerned > that the projects might not be pulling in a common direction to benefit the > community as a whole. Isn't this what the steering committee was aiming to > improve? As far as I can see, there's been no news posted to gridengine.org > since February. from my retrospection it's a matter of events. When Oracle announced to abandon the open source version of SGE, Ron tried to offer a place for the latest available free version at Open Grid Scheduler, so that it's not vanishing. Lateron Dave created Son of Grid Engine to have a place for the sources too, and also for the Howtos and the bug tickets. Then Univa came up with their own version of GridEngine and to open source their further development of it. == In former times, the community was also able to add bug tickets at SUN; as we don't have this option at Univa I appreciate Dave's efforts (and even if it's only to point someone to an already known bug). I'm also willed to put any new Howto's there. -- Reuti > I'm not trying to have a go at anyone, I think everyone wants what is best > for the community: I'm just hoping for a bit more constructive discussion > about what that might be :) > > Mark > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Dixon Email : [email protected] > HPC/Grid Systems Support Tel (int): 35429 > Information Systems Services Tel (ext): +44(0)113 343 5429 > University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
