Condor will be open source?

An interesting article on Red Hat's plans for its "Enterprise MRG" distribution. MRG stands for Messaging (an implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), Real-time (real-time Linux kernel), and Grid (which for Red Hat, means virtualization support and Condor support for application deployment).

And for those who have always wanted to see the supposedly open source, but never really accessible Condor software, some good news:

As part of the agreement between Red Hat and the University of Wisconsin, the Condor software will seek an OSI-compliant software license that will allow the code to be distributed as part of a RHEL stack.

Comments

[Gabriel Mateescu]

To me, Condor is like UNIX/Linux: a well-designed system that was able to evolve over time. In addition to being a useful stand-alone system, Condor can also inter-operate smoothly with other distributed software, including Globus and workload management systems such as PBS.