This is much like the jail() of BSD. This does not give any of the benefits of a clustering arrangement. That is, the benefit of having a cluster is that you can distribute process across multiple machines and run from a common storage server. Although this technology is very useful (and can be applied in all sorts of ways- We run Bind in a jail) it does not provide extra process space if only running on one machine.
Having sufficient RAM is the largest factor in commodity grade webhosting services, so having mutlitple instances of a cluster on the same machine does not really make sense, when the whole point of a cluster is to give faster computation and access time.
btw- we offer both of these services here, and we do it on FreeBSD.
I think this is Good News. Digital Creations obviously has a good development strategy. They can make their community happy by aquiring the geniuses at python, so that the community does more to enhance Zope (like creating more Products and Documentation) and performing services for Zope (like R&D testing). It sure sounds okay from the stance of a businessman, companies don't want to build dynamic object publishing systems themselves, so DC has a win there- their consulting services will certainly flourish.
Zope is destined to progress by leaps and bounds with the entire Python team on the DC dole, and not just from resulting from the work done by the python crew either- with this news, the morale of the Zope community has got to be going through the roof.
The Open Source community has got to be psyched also, (I know I am) Digital Creations has just too much at stake to do any funny licensing or anything like that, Guido has made it obvious that he wants it Open Source. DC has been good for the community in the past, I am confident that they will have no choice but to keep it up.
AOL and Kinko's are positioning themselves to become business 'buddies'. AOL cds are distributed at Kinko's worldwide, and Kinkos is getting kickbacks for every customer that subscribes to AOL from a Kinko's distributed AOL cd. In exchange, Kinko's gets to have ads on AOL and pays AOL for clickthroughs on ad banners. AOL is really trying to establish a sort of 'bricks and mortar' to their virtual company, along with having a IRL distro for their subscription cds. I wouldnt be surprised if AOL bought Kinko's in the next 6 months.
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This is much like the jail() of BSD. This does not give any of the benefits of a clustering arrangement. That is, the benefit of having a cluster is that you can distribute process across multiple machines and run from a common storage server. Although this technology is very useful (and can be applied in all sorts of ways- We run Bind in a jail) it does not provide extra process space if only running on one machine.
Having sufficient RAM is the largest factor in commodity grade webhosting services, so having mutlitple instances of a cluster on the same machine does not really make sense, when the whole point of a cluster is to give faster computation and access time.
btw- we offer both of these services here, and we do it on FreeBSD.
I think this is Good News. Digital Creations obviously has a good development strategy. They can make their community happy by aquiring the geniuses at python, so that the community does more to enhance Zope (like creating more Products and Documentation) and performing services for Zope (like R&D testing). It sure sounds okay from the stance of a businessman, companies don't want to build dynamic object publishing systems themselves, so DC has a win there- their consulting services will certainly flourish.
Zope is destined to progress by leaps and bounds with the entire Python team on the DC dole, and not just from resulting from the work done by the python crew either- with this news, the morale of the Zope community has got to be going through the roof.
The Open Source community has got to be psyched also, (I know I am) Digital Creations has just too much at stake to do any funny licensing or anything like that, Guido has made it obvious that he wants it Open Source. DC has been good for the community in the past, I am confident that they will have no choice but to keep it up.
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AOL and Kinko's are positioning themselves to become business 'buddies'. AOL cds are distributed at Kinko's worldwide, and Kinkos is getting kickbacks for every customer that subscribes to AOL from a Kinko's distributed AOL cd. In exchange, Kinko's gets to have ads on AOL and pays AOL for clickthroughs on ad banners. AOL is really trying to establish a sort of 'bricks and mortar' to their virtual company, along with having a IRL distro for their subscription cds. I wouldnt be surprised if AOL bought Kinko's in the next 6 months.