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Openfiler Storage Management Software GPL'd
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on The Inquirer, a UK based company has set up a GPL'd Linux-based storage management project called Openfiler, and donated its code to it. There are some nice screenshots showing off its features. Apparently, the code itself will be available for download on 30th of October. There is a press release on the company's website. The concept of special purpose Linux distributions for enterprise applications seems to be picking up in recent years, with release of products from SuSE, Smoothwall and the like."
This looks promising. There is not a lot of information on the site yet, but you can guess a lot from the screen shots. This is one to keep an eye on.
Apparently they plan to keep part of the software commercial by providing it means to access commercial code for some features.
To be successful in most common enterprise environments they will have to support MS AD for quota & user management. Perhaps that can be done through LDAP already.
They didn't mention backup options anywhere. They need to build NDMP support at least.
I joined two users too late.
i.e. applications that take over an entire system. This used to be a bizarre concept
Huh? A system reboot was the only way to 'exit' soooo many Apple ][ games precisely because they took over the entire system.
Likewise early PC games, and even a few commercial apps.
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