Out of Sync: Maddy's Blog

I am off to Community One West today! The last couple of weeks have been hectic both on the personal and work front.  At the end of the day I am happy that great progress have been made on both fronts. 

I hope to meet lot of folks whom I've worked with in the Solaris organization in person and quite excited about it. I'll be hanging around the Open HA Cluster booth where we'll be demoing the Open source version of our Solaris Cluster product. I am planning to post photos from the event on a daily basis - but hey, no promises!

Hopefully, this time I'll get time to visit Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - de Young - Legion of Honor. It was on the plans last year as well but unfortunately couldn't visit it. Ciao!

The results of the  OpenSolaris  community awards are out:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_land/Entries/

 Marcelo Leal of OHAC community got 3 awards including his HA NFS/ZFS agent without shared storage.

Also 4 CAs from India won awards in various categories.  This augurs very well for Sun's future in India and the efforts of the University Program team should be applauded. They do a fantastic job in reaching to tomorrow's IT folks.  I hope the lessons are learned and implemented in other geographies as well.

Congratulations Winners! You deserved it.

The first agent to be developed in the Open HA community will be the HA Informix Agent.  The details can be found at:  http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ha-informix.  IBM used to provide an agent for the earlier versions of Solaris Cluster and hopefully this will be the replacement from Sun.  More exciting projects are in the pipeline and join in if you want to influence the direction of the best and most stable HA software! 

Consistent with Sun's software philosophy, the HA cluster team will be open sourcing the code of our flagship HA product, Sun Cluster! As the first step of the process, a new community will be formed under opensolaris.org. The thread that started it all can be read here. If you need to know more, you can either read the archives or post comments here or the product blog! 

Sun Microsystems will contribute to the community the source code for

Solaris Cluster, Sun's commercial HA Cluster product group, under the

name “Open High Availability Cluster.” This contribution will start at

the time of community formation with the Sun Cluster Agents source for a

wide portfolio of applications.

As an active contributor and participant in this project, I am really excited folks!  Imagine, the most stable and cost effective HA solution will be open and already it is free!  Can you feel the winds of change?  While it might be good for us, the same cannot be said for our competitors!

 Wait for more announcements !

 3 cheers for open software!