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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:33:57PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:36:51PM -0500, GNU/Linux :-) wrote: > > it also happends that I do know what I talk about of the profesional > > edition of Redhat cause I was talking one hour with Marisa Keller > > I'm sorry, but no, you don't know what you're talking about. What > you're talking about is Red Hat Advanced Server Edition: > > http://www.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/ > > > clusters(sense I love making beowulfs), I asked them if I could get the > > Clustering monitor they were displaying in the booth as example for > > their Cluster software, they told me that I can only get it in the > > profesional edition and that it was a in house software, not 3rd party. > > No I don't know the name sense I can't download it cause I can only get > > it in the profesional edition ;-) > > No, that's wrong. You can only get *binaries* by buying advanced > server. You can, however, download the source code from their FTP > server, and compile it yourself. > > It's on ftp.redhat.com: > > /pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/i386/SRPMS > > It's probably also on at least some of their mirrors. The software > you speak of is Red Hat Cluster Manager, and the team that is working > on it is made up primarily of former Mission Critical Linux employees. > It is based on MCL's Kimberlite open-source version of Convolo > clustering software. And compiling, selling, and supporting binaries is at the dead-center of open source business models pushed by the likes of Eric Raymond - and, for that matter, by GPL purists like RMS. Whoa... is RedHat guilty of taking those business models seriously? Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
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