I have been promoting and working on Grid Engine since June 2001:
http://beowulf.org/archive/2001-July/004410.html http://beowulf.org/archive/2001-July/004341.html And where was Univa during all those years? Did Univa contribute a single line of code to the SGE cvs? Did Univa answer a single question on the SGE mailing list? IMO, Univa sees that Oracle ending open-source SGE development as a business opportunity rather than a way to support the open source Grid Engine community. Univa fixed a few bugs in Grid Engine, and wanted the Open Grid Scheduler & the Son of Grid Engine projects to work with them? So that they can eliminate the number of open source Grid Engine implementations? Univa is actually doing more damages to the open source Grid Engine community if what Dave says about Univa spreading FUD is true. It did not allow more people to use this technology. Yes, Univa hired some Grid Engine engineers (not the whole team, Oracle still has people working on Grid Engine) from Oracle, but this at best only helped the unemployment of Germany. If Univa is serious about contributing, it would not have used this FUD to damage the open source Grid Engine reputation in the first place. And secondly, Univa should contribute something that it owns (UniSight, UniCloud, Grid MP) than fixing some bugs. Now we know that Univa has no intention to work with the open source Grid Engine community (even without the benefit of hindsight, I knew at the beginning). We as a community should just move on. I will contribute a few things to both the Open Grid Scheduler & the Son of Grid Engine projects in the future. -Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Love <[email protected]> To: Ron Chen <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [gridengine users] Beware Univa FUD To be fair, the proposal I understood involved some sort of `governance' body as Sun originally proposed but never constituted. I didn't see lack of previous contributions as a problem, but I was in the same boat, acting because I thought someone had to. For information, I'm afraid the warning appeared just to be attacks on another commercial interest and then the warnee. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
