Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:00:20 -0600 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux |
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TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resource constraints and short term schedules, the Open Source NDS and Open Source NTFS File System projects are being withdrawn from the Linux Initiative. These projects will be MANOS only, and any interested party is free to acquire the code and back port them into Linux, though the networking architectures are profoundly different between the two. The lack of a Kernel Debugger and other basic kernel level facilities on Linux make TRG's job about 20 times harder on Linux and take almost 10 times as long as is possible on NT, NetWare, or MANOS to develop software asa result ofthis. To date, TRG has invested over $1,500,000.00 on Linux development projects enabling NetWare-to-Linux interoperability so we feel like we have contributed erstwhile resources to date. Downloads of NWFS has exceeded 900,000 copies to date from TRG's website.
TRG will continue to support NWFS on Linux as a migration file system for NetWare-to-Linux Migration, however, all new development will be on the MANOS platform only. M2FS for Linux will be available in binary form only for those interested parties. A press release will be sent on Monday informing the industry that TRG has withdrawn these projects in Open Source form on Linux and citing the reasons for this decision.
As for the reasons behind this decision, TRG has attempted to be an contributing member of Linux for quite some time, however, the architecture of Linux is unnatural to Novell's and Microsoft's technologies and Linux is at present incapable of providing the same level of Networking capability available with Windows 2000 or NetWare to enterprise customers. NetWare routinely supports upwards of 2000 users per server for file and print. Linux with it's current level of development has trouble with configurations of more than 100 users via MARS-NWE or SAMBA in our tests. TRG's MANOS source code and components are freely available to the Linux community, and TRG has no objection to continued participation with the Linux Community and use of any of it's source code in Linux projects.
Very Truly Yours,
Jeff Merkey CEO, TRG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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