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! 