Hi Taco, and blues,
>> Well 210 quid but still sounds steep, but not as steep as 710 quid
>> for
>> unlimited clustering...
>
> The pricepoint Michael and Brian set their products is their own
> choice, and I am sure both of them have thought over the pricing
> model to use to be fair.
On my personal thoughts, that price is not bad.
But, I don't buy it, because my job isn't hosting business.
>> I understand that the chaps must have put some work into this, but
>> most of
>> it is opensource.. I wonder if they are going to be sending any
>> funds to
>> the opensource projects that they are using?
> A big misunderstanding by a lot of people is that opensource means
> free as in free beer.
> Open Source gives you the freedom to modify the source yourself and
> not be dependant (locked in) to a contract with the supplier.
> The BQ license (Sun BSD) allows anyone to use the source, but
> leaves it up to them wether they release their modifications back
> as opensource.
> It allows anyone to sell the resulting product at any price they want.
Sun BSD license is based on BSD license, so anyone can make a product
to modify BlueQuartz
and not to need to their modify and new codes to BlueQuartz, they
don't want.
As you know, I worked at Turbolinux that sell Turbolinux Appliance
Server(TLAS) based on
BlueQuartz and TLAS2 is based on 5100R.
But, I already left from Turbolinux last October, so my activity is
my hobby and
volunteer, now.
> And if anyone wants to implement similar features like Aventurine
> in the normal BQ build, they are very welcome.
> Actually Hisao showed me his virtualization work (also based on
> OpenVZ) last summer at the Cobalt User Group/BQ conference in Nagano.
Yes, I showed that BlueQuartz is running on OpenVZ that is running on
OS X with Parallels.
> Maybe Hisao can let us all know if he continued his work in any way.
I'm back to this project, I continue to develop BlueQuartz.
I changed my job, so it is difficult to take much time for the project.
Anyway, I started to develop next BlueQuartz on CentOS5 and I will write
the spec that is my thoughts at Trac wiki.
And I will start virtualization BlueQuartz based on CentOS5 and OpenVZ.
I will announce that Trac is ready to add the account by yourself.
Thanks,
Hisao