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| DATE | 2013-05-29 |
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] I think Hell just froze over
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Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] I think Hell just froze over
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Hey! I thought Flying Monkeys from Hell ruled but i stand corrected ....
Definitely Flying Pigs with Liquid Nitrogen are Best!
Thanks Rob!
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Recently a vendor who makes Linux appliances who was trying to sell them
> to my company told me something shocking and whats even more shocking is
> its true.
> First some background for the last couple of years Ive been working on a
> pure Perl API for CIM (Common Information Model ) an old but very useful
> standard written by the DMTF that in many ways makes SNMP look like a
> ridiculous relic. CIM is the parent protocol for a lot of other
> standardized protocols for managing and monitoring systems, virtual
> machines, storage infrastructures, etc. Some of the most common
> implementations of it are SBLIM on GNU Linux, SMI-S on storage devices, the
> VMware vSphere APIs, Dell OpenManage, HP System Insight Manager, WMI on
> Windows, and many more.
>
> Now to the point. Well it seams Microsoft decided to drop a new bomb I've
> never seen from them before. Microsoft wrote a new WBEM (Web Based
> Enterprise Management) server for Windows Server 2012 which is the server
> side component of the CIM standard to serve up WMI. the shocking part is
> they made it so it compiles under Linux and Unix and released the code
> under the Apache 2 license.
>
> No this is not a joke its real, Microsoft is releasing open source
> software!
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/06/28/open-management-infrastructure.aspx
>
> Ive been speculating for a few years now that they might start doing this
> based on the fact that they let the Samba core developers see the windows
> source code and all of their patents after the samba developers signing
> NDA's (Non Disclosure Agreement) and they did a similar thing with
> Microsoft Exchange and the core developers of Open Change (Open Change is
> an open source clone of Microsoft Exchange which is still not complete yet
> but its getting there). Still this is shocking and is going to
> significantly change the software and OS landscape, but I'm honestly just
> not sure how yet. Is It going to be a good thing , a bad thing ? I don't
> know! Now to be clear its open source not free speech software so they are
> still protecting their sales, but still its unprecedented for Microsoft,
> the company whos co-founder (You know the one) came up with the concept of
> software licenses in the first place to prevent users from sharing software
> http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/gatesletter.html.
>
>
> The only thing I can think of that could explain this a large squadren of
> pigs flew into Hell and bomed it with liquid nitrogen till it froze.
>
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Regards,
Evan M. Inker
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Hey! I thought Flying Monkeys from Hell ruled but i stand corrected ....
Definitely Flying Pigs with Liquid Nitrogen are Best!
Thanks Rob!
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Recently a vendor who makes Linux appliances who was trying to sell them
> to my company told me something shocking and whats even more shocking is
> its true.
> First some background for the last couple of years Ive been working on a
> pure Perl API for CIM (Common Information Model ) an old but very useful
> standard written by the DMTF that in many ways makes SNMP look like a
> ridiculous relic. CIM is the parent protocol for a lot of other
> standardized protocols for managing and monitoring systems, virtual
> machines, storage infrastructures, etc. Some of the most common
> implementations of it are SBLIM on GNU Linux, SMI-S on storage devices, the
> VMware vSphere APIs, Dell OpenManage, HP System Insight Manager, WMI on
> Windows, and many more.
>
> Now to the point. Well it seams Microsoft decided to drop a new bomb I've
> never seen from them before. Microsoft wrote a new WBEM (Web Based
> Enterprise Management) server for Windows Server 2012 which is the server
> side component of the CIM standard to serve up WMI. the shocking part is
> they made it so it compiles under Linux and Unix and released the code
> under the Apache 2 license.
>
> No this is not a joke its real, Microsoft is releasing open source
> software!
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/06/28/open-management-infrastructure.aspx
>
> Ive been speculating for a few years now that they might start doing this
> based on the fact that they let the Samba core developers see the windows
> source code and all of their patents after the samba developers signing
> NDA's (Non Disclosure Agreement) and they did a similar thing with
> Microsoft Exchange and the core developers of Open Change (Open Change is
> an open source clone of Microsoft Exchange which is still not complete yet
> but its getting there). Still this is shocking and is going to
> significantly change the software and OS landscape, but I'm honestly just
> not sure how yet. Is It going to be a good thing , a bad thing ? I don't
> know! Now to be clear its open source not free speech software so they are
> still protecting their sales, but still its unprecedented for Microsoft,
> the company whos co-founder (You know the one) came up with the concept of
> software licenses in the first place to prevent users from sharing software
> http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_01/gatesletter.html.
>
>
> The only thing I can think of that could explain this a large squadren of
> pigs flew into Hell and bomed it with liquid nitrogen till it froze.
>
--
Regards,
Evan M. Inker
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