| Re: [aperi-dev] Aperi News |
>>> On 1/27/2009 at 9:34 PM, in message <OF7B688E29.0206ED13-ON8625754C.0005C04A-8625754C.00191CE7@xxxxxxxxxx>, Allen Heitman <aheitman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now for the sad news. It is with great sadness that I have to say that IBM > has decided not to staff the Aperi project for 2009. Too bad. Thought you might enjoy a screenshot of Aperi's tracking of a Xen VM with Novell assigned NPIV port moving around a couple of different SAN switch ports due to live migration of that VM. > Currently, the Aperi project has been an Incubation project under the > Eclipse Technology Project for several years. Incubation is a phase and > not a place. Since IBM is the only company providing active committers for > over the last year, I propose that we move the project from Incubation > phase to the Archived state. I am preparing a deck for this review. Will IBM still sell the commercial TPC tools? how much of the Aperi codebase will be used there? (for example, knowledge of Xen VM block devices) > While I understand the business decision, I will miss working on this > project and leading such a talented group of folks. All the best, it was certainly a lot of fun working on Aperi (though I guess it was a while ago now...) Cheers, Robert
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