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Ceph is not becoming Spectrum Ceph. Along with ODF, it will remain 100 percent open source. IBM said it will assume Premier Sponsorship of the Ceph Foundation,
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Ceph is not becoming Spectrum Ceph. Along with ODF, it will remain 100 percent open source. IBM said it will assume Premier Sponsorship of the Ceph Foundation, whose members collaborate on the Ceph open source project.
That is the key take-away for me that I hope remains true and does not go the route of Sequent. Should that be the case I also hope the Ceph Foundation keep Ceph alive and independent from IBM perhaps by forking it in the same manor that was done with MySQL (MariaDB and others) when Oracle acquired it.
- ThaDood 4y agoWhat would be the ramifications? IBM now has a forked version of ODF and Ceph with enterprise support? Ceph and ODF get abandoned?
- 0xF2 4y agoRed Hat Ceph Storage and ODF continue. The same team will continue to develop newer releases, now with dual IBM and RHT corporate access. Open Source commitment, upstream first, and foundation continue as before. I am a member of the team, and while we are certainly adjusting to the news, we are also pretty excited. Red Hat has been generous to Ceph, but it could not take Ceph beyond platform storage for OpenStack and Kubernetes — we want to reach for the full “Linux of Storage” original vision.
- jjtheblunt 4y agogo the route of Sequent?