From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 30 10:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0AEA37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA188232; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:29:09 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200008301530.LAA27160@lakes.dignus.com> References: <200008301530.LAA27160@lakes.dignus.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:29:37 -0400 To: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: AFS. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:30 AM -0400 8/30/00, Thomas David Rivers wrote: >Just F.Y.I.... > > I understand that, today, IBM is announcing it will open-source >AFS via the IBM Public Source license.. > > Some quotes I've seen: > >"IBM announced today the open source contribution of a >high-performance file system technology and talent to >strengthen collaboration in the enterprise." This was announced at linuxworld. It has been mentioned on the freebsd-afs mailing list. I think it is a very interesting development, we shall have to see how it works out. Note that there will still be a commercial AFS offering, and this new open-source AFS option. The open-source one will not include some things from the commercial package. I am not sure what things will be missing. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message