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Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ?
Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ?
Posted Nov 1, 2004 22:21 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ? by adulau
Parent article: Ingres r3 released
My guess is, this is legalese for "we don't do hard realtime guarantees in this program". Since those are often necessary to be used in such environments, not having a deterministic upper bound to latency would be grounds for at least warning people. In other words, it's advising of a technical restriction, and trying to eliminate liability in such cases.
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Ingres r3 released - License OSI compliant ?
Posted Nov 2, 2004 8:57 UTC (Tue) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link]
Not only hard realtime is a problem. There are situations where soft or no realtime at all are enough, but correctness is absolutely important.
But usually these environments require lots of certificates, so even without the restriction a system like this won't be even considered.