Start-up beats IBM for Linux software (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com covers Sistina Software's LVM 2.0, which is slated for inclusion into the 2.6 Linux kernel. "Sistina's LVM products are open-source and freely available. Although the company sells support for LVM to customers who want it, its major revenue source is file system software that works hand in hand with LVM."

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Start-up beats IBM for Linux software (News.com)

Posted Jan 4, 2003 5:21 UTC (Sat) by gwithrow (guest, #3156) [Link]

In LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 7, 2002,

http://lwn.net/Articles/14215/

Kernel page editor Jonathan Corbet commented on the
IBM LVM team accepting the decision of the kernel maintainer
and refocusing to make their administration tools work well
with LVM 2.0:

"Some developers, when their work is passed over for inclusion,
complain at length on the linux-kernel list. Others simply take
their marbles and go home. The EVMS project, instead, has decided
to take a different approach: they will drop their kernel driver
and rework their administration tools to work on top of LVM2
instead. The result, with luck, should be the best of both worlds
for EVMS users: they get the well-respected management tools on
top of the in-kernel LVM2 base."

We all win when people act like this.

Gary