Why release Solaris Cluster as open source?
Sun believes very strongly in the value of open source, and is the largest contributor to open source software. Sun is committed to providing open source for most of its software products. In the two years since Sun first opened the Solaris source code, the OpenSolaris project community has grown worldwide. Sun is releasing Open High Availability Cluster in response to interest and feedback from the OpenSolaris community. Open source provides a number of benefits to the community: • Allows developers to cooperate freely with a minimum of legal restrictions. • Helps accelerate innovation around clustered solutions and make it more appealing to organizations that prefer open source solutions. • Allows the community to participate in the evolution of the software by giving the community the opportunity to contribute in many ways: Developing code to extend the cluster-enabled application portfolio; adding documentation or providing feedback in terms of features and priorities. Help develop
