My personal speculation: Caldera will likely jump on the bandwagon. Red Hat might, and TurboLinux almost certainly won't. Of course, all would be more than welcome to. We've got a really big bandwagon:-)
Hire those who are responsible for other alternatives (that's what SuSE did with me and a few others):-)
Produce a superior product sooner, and put it out under the right license terms. Work on including the important industry players. We're working on this strategy now...
Now, this is not to say that alternatives are bad, because the Next Great Breakthrough couldn't happen without alternatives.
With the SGI announcement, our aim went up considerably:-) We expect it to keep rising and rising. Several of the things you're talking about are under development now.
Check out the Global Filesystem project at www.globalfilesystem.org.
One thing to keep in mind to help on balance: 90% of all cluster systems will be 2 or 3 node clusters. The more powerful machines get, the higher the percentage will require only a few nodes.
I'm one of the key contributors to the Linux-HA project, and the owner of the domain name linux-ha.org, etc. I've recently joined SuSE to help them bring this to market. It's way ahead of where we could be on our own.
I think we'll do well, and expect to get this out much faster than we possibly could starting from scratch. We expect to use something like the Apache development model.
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My personal speculation: :-)
Caldera will likely jump on the bandwagon. Red Hat might, and TurboLinux almost certainly won't. Of course, all would be more than welcome to. We've got a really big bandwagon
Now, here's a man with a good grasp of the plan :-)
There are several ways to do this:
:-)
Hire those who are responsible for other alternatives (that's what SuSE did with me and a few others)
Produce a superior product sooner, and put it out under the right license terms. Work on including the important industry players. We're working on this strategy now...
Now, this is not to say that alternatives are bad, because the Next Great Breakthrough couldn't happen without alternatives.
With the SGI announcement, our aim went up considerably :-) We expect it to keep rising and rising. Several of the things you're talking about are under development now.
Check out the Global Filesystem project at www.globalfilesystem.org.
One thing to keep in mind to help on balance: 90% of all cluster systems will be 2 or 3 node clusters. The more powerful machines get, the higher the percentage will require only a few nodes.
I'm one of the key contributors to the Linux-HA project, and the owner of the domain name linux-ha.org, etc. I've recently joined SuSE to help them bring this to market. It's way ahead of where we could be on our own.
I think we'll do well, and expect to get this out much faster than we possibly could starting from scratch. We expect to use something like the Apache development model.