Hi Dave,
the basic problem is that not clear (to me) whether DPM
dcache provide a good technical off-the-shelf solution to our needs
at QMUL...so I will need to understand the code base before I can hack
something together.
cheers,
Alex
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dr D J Colling wrote:
> Hi Alex et al,
>
> Of course DPM is open source and welcome contributions. I believe that
> there is (essentially) no UK experience with DPM. Am I correct in this
> understanding? Although the sites that are in SC3 must use dCache would it
> be worth encouraging other sites to gain experience with DPM? I pose this
> as a question and would be interested in other people's opinion.
>
> I do have a problem with dCache not being open source. I know John will
> say something like I use commercial products without ever having access to
> the source code but DESY is no microsoft.
>
> All the best,
> david
>
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