Re:Chef to be acquired by Progress
by TheCraiggers on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:06AM
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I know nothing of Progress. Are they OSS friendly? I'd hate to see some of the OSS chef-managed tools die on the vine because of this.
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Re:Chef to be acquired by Progress
by mellosouls on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:18AM
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No, they are not.
They might claim though - as in the link below - that this is because their products are too niche to support quality input from open source. Make of that what you will.
https://www.progress.com/tutorials/odbc/open-source-database
In my experience, Progress is not very OSS friendly. Prime example: they don’t even have an open CLIENT driver to connect to their database. You need a license just to connect.
From the Progress press report...
"We have a long history of supporting open source communities so I am proud to say that we will continue to nurture the vibrant and thriving Chef open source community."
Re:Chef to be acquired by Progress
by TheCraiggers on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:40AM
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Ah, I should have looked for a press release on the Progress side of things. Thanks for that!
What value is in such a PR?
Re:Chef to be acquired by Progress
by jjamesflynn on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:38AM
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Progress had an open source division called FUSE (Apache Camel, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, etc) for five years before selling to RedHat JBoss.
Some of its products (e.g. Telerik Kendo, NativeScript) have open source versions. There's also Fiddler Network and JustAssembly/decompiler.