Hi All at Contribs
Not with standing the debate and discussion surrounding the future of SME , I came across the following, which in my opinion re-enforces the benefits of SME (that we currently enjoy ):
Based out of San Jose,
the new Linux company is called Specifix and is led by two Red
Hat veterans, Kim Knuttila and Erik Troan. Specifix' aim is to
create a template-style Linux distribution that can be beefed up
or scaled down to run on a variety of platforms.
Specifix is expected to release a Linux version by year-end,
along with a tool called Conary, which is a code-writing
management system. Conary is intended to let enterprise users
modify Linux code in the core Specifix code base and track the
changes. This could help enterprises manage and maintain a
unified Linux code across all the platforms in use, from PDAs
and desktops, to servers and mainframes.
Specifix this week plans to release a beta version of Conary to
developers. The software is licensed under IBM's open source
Common Public License.
The co-founders of Specifix bring several years of high-level
Linux experience and strategy with them from Red Hat. Specifix
CEO Knuttila was previously vice president of engineering
services, and was the manager of Red Hat's Cygnus unit, which
developed embedded software development tools. Troan, who is
executive vice president of operating systems at Specifix, was
previously chief development officer and vice president of
product engineering at Red Hat.
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