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| DATE | 2013-05-30 |
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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
From: Paul Robert Marino
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Evan
I thought you would get a kick out of that one.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:12 PM, einker wrote:
> 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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Evan
I thought you would get a kick out of that one.>
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Evan
I thought you would get a kick out of that one.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:12 PM, einker wrote:
> 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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Evan
I thought you would get a kick out of that one.>
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