Open Service Tags now under GPL 3

In April of 2007 we announced a new concept in IT asset tracking.  We called it Sun Service Tags.  These small software assets offer the capability to discover and introspect hardware and software assets.  About a month later we introduced Sun Inventory.  A free, hosted service that allows individuals and teams to track and manage their IT assets.

Since this introduction less than a year ago, we've seen an explosion in these use of this technology.  Product teams from across Sun have started to take advantage of this technology and it's now built into most of Sun's hardware and software products.  In addition, customers have started to use it.  We now have almost 300,000 individual assets registered into the Sun Inventory system!

Now we're ready to take the next step with this technology.  We'd like to see companies outside of Sun start to take advantage of it.  We did ports of Sun Service Tags to operating systems like Microsoft Windows and RedHat Linux, so that people can track those assets in the Inventory system.  However, we think this can go much farther.  Thus, we've decided to free the source code to these little technological gems.  Now, as part of the Open xVM community, you'll find a sub-project called Open Service Tags.  Complete source code is available there under a GPL v3 license.  Go check it out and participate!

Posted at 01:42PM Apr 07, 2008 by Stephen Wilson in DataCenter  |