rdm@cernapo (Alphonse Rademakers) (05/16/91)
Hi, I've been hearing about things being fixed in v3.0 that will be propagated into v2.2. What is the status of these two versions. Is version v2.2 the last "free" version and will v3.0 become a comercial product or is v2.2 an intermediate version and v3.0 the big new version with many improvements? Will v3.0 still be "free"? Cheers, Fons Rademakers. -- Org: CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research. Mail: 1123 Geneve, Switzerland Fax: +22 7677155 Phone: +22 7674886 or 7675049 UUCP: rdm@cernapo.cern.ch BITNET: rdm@cernvm.bitnet
ken@CS.Cornell.EDU (Ken Birman) (05/16/91)
In article <RDM.91May16142250@aposalo.cern.ch> rdm@cernapo (Alphonse Rademakers) writes: >Hi, > I've been hearing about things being fixed in v3.0 that will be propagated >into v2.2. What is the status of these two versions. Is version v2.2 the last >"free" version and will v3.0 become a comercial product or is v2.2 an >intermediate version and v3.0 the big new version with many improvements? Will >v3.0 still be "free"? > V3.0 is the commercial version. You can purchase it now, if you want it, from Isis Distributed Systems. Email to ids@cs.cornell.edu for info. V2.2 will be V2.1 with some bugs fixed and will be the last free version from Cornell. Until we have some time to create this release people will just have to manage with V2.1. Our problem is that Cornell has switched tracks to a major new research effort (an integration of ISIS into the Mach and Chorus O/S) and we don't have resources anymore to do free releases. V2.2 will not include most of the new performance features and interfaces that have been described for V3.0 and beyond. In the long run, Cornell is going out of the "active support for ISIS" business, although anything we do up here will still be made available in some form for public consumption. We just don't have enough money to hire people to provide "free" support.... -- Kenneth P. Birman E-mail: ken@cs.cornell.edu 4105 Upson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science TEL: 607 255-9199 (office) Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (USA) FAX: 607 255-4428