Google Gets Slack with Software Updates

An anonymous reader writes "While Google's open source project titled 'Slack' was released over a year ago, last week's Australian Unix Users Group Conference marks the first time that Google has ever discussed the system in public. Corporate systems administrator Michael Still helped to illuminate a little bit about how Google uses Slack and how their network of computers fits together. From the article: '"Slack is a source deployment system and it's the way we install applications on servers," Still said, adding Slack is based around a centralized configuration repository which is then deployed onto selected machines in a "pull" method. Each of the "worker" machines asks for its new configuration regularly or when a manual command is run.'"

Comments

open source ruined business for everybody

[zitintheass]

even Google knows that, but they are not good example here, theyve got other (bad) reasons to participate

cmon, do you think there will be innovative new browsers and other programs ? nope, gpl should be illegal/banned and rs hanged (looser), every os project is just a loser project that wanted to strike back to the winning competitor from the agony raising a new gpl zombie

Re:open source ruined business for everybody

[SirTalon42]

Awww! Poor 7 digiter is upset by OSS? Enjoy your Windows (you should probably not use the internet though, most versions of Windows uses FreeBSD's network stack)!

So its part of the Active Directory for Unix

[0racle]

This sounds almost exactly like the Active Directory's ability to publish and/or assign software to Domain members.