On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for your needs. There's a whole community out there that can pick up > the slack. That's the point. Not whether anybody should be hastily > changing the format of enterprise file systems. Most certainly. But just the fact that the community *can* pick up the source code does not mean it will happen. And I do understand that having it included in the mainstream Linux kernel is a more solid bases (and I believe that is one of the reasons Red Hat is less eager to take s390 patches from IBM under the counter). We ran in several open source projects that seemed to fit our requirements, but turned out to be the pet project of a single developer. We did not have the skills and/or management approval to carry that work ourselves and decided to stay with mainstream solutions. Long before Linux, many large installations ended up in a similar situation because their own systems programming staff had local modifications to the OS all over the place, making it extremely risky to move from one release to the next. When we introduced Linux, management was concerned to be held hostage by open source developers. I can see how a support arrangement with a distribution partner and strict directives fit into that. -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
