Peter Tribble wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 19:45, Dave Miner wrote: > >> Update Manager is not part of our consolidation, > > So it's in which consolidation? And what might its > prospects of being open-sourced be? >
It's the Customer Network Services (CNS) consolidation. The current roadmap doesn't list any plans for open-sourcing it. > I can see that it might not be, as it's closely tied > to Sun's service offerings. But it's sitting there in > prime territory, so it would be nice to know where it > might fit in. > The acquisition of Aduva has changed some of the technology direction there, so I'd expect it might be a while before any plans are put in place, but I'm not aware of this being an exception to our general direction of open-sourcing all of our software. > (I have to say that I personally don't like it.) > I'll let 'em know ;-) Dave
