Apache To Steward NASA-Built Middleware 27
itwbennett writes "The Apache Software Foundation announced Wednesday that the Object-Oriented Data Technology (OODT), first developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has graduated to a top level project. The software 'provides a one-stop toolkit for building up a database, populating a database, setting up a work flow to get data into that database, and then serving out lots of different content from that database,' said Chris Mattmann, vice president of the OODT project. NASA uses the software to manage data from multiple domains, including astrophysics, earth carbon monitoring and land-water use. The National Cancer Institute also uses the software for its Daily Detection Research Network, which ties together multiple cancer research databases."
The JPL (Score:1)
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Re:The JPL (Score:4, Informative)
JPL never did any work with jet engines. It was founded between 1936 and 1941 (depending on what you consider founding) to work on rocket motors.
However, during that time, jet propulsion was all the rage (a 100mph difference would have been very important during WWII dog fights,) which led to the choice of names. Easier to get funding when you use the right buzzwords.
Whew, that's all right then (Score:5, Funny)
When I first saw the acronym, I thought it was about the repeal of "Object-Oriented, Don't Tell", NASA's antiquated requirement for all-procedural programming...
Re:Whew, that's all right then (Score:5, Funny)
NASA's antiquated requirement for all-procedural programming...
Can you provide a reference?
0x0C56A5FF :P
But . . . (Score:2)
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It doesn't matter, as all the operations it performs are covered by a number of patents, by a number of different companies, and which will sue the gov't and everybody who even thought about downloading this software for willful patent infringement.
Not a "first NASA's Open Source release" (Score:5, Informative)
Despite what http://oodt.apache.org/ [apache.org] says, this is not NASA's first "Open Source" project, as Worldwind is older (2007). However, OODT may well be NASA's first Free Software project because Worldwind was released under a non-free license, whereas this is Apache 2 license. Yes, you read correctly. NASA has its own NOSA license (NASA Open Source Agreement - yuck), which is not a free software license by the standards of FSF, but is non the less approved by OSI (which makes it officially "Open Source"). Look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement [wikipedia.org]
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a one-stop toolkit for building up a database
touch
populating a database
echo >>
setting up a work flow to get data into that database
emacs pico nano ed
and then serving out lots of different content from that database
head tail grep cut sed
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A log file isn't a database:)
Sounds like SharePoint (Score:3)
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People who do hard things respect the work of others, and would never make the kind of idiot blanket statement you posted. Saying such a thing marks you as useless talentless and brainless. You trash
High tech sophisticated sounding database tool (Score:2)
Nice work (Score:2)
It definitely sounds like an excellent tool. I can't wait to have a play.
Has the potential to be extremely useful. Thanks guys.
What is it? (Score:4, Informative)
I read the summary, the article, and a few pages on the website. They all talk about features, but no description of what the thing actually is, except that it's written in Python. I recognize most of the words there, and they have a block diagram with nebulous terms.
So, does anybody actually know what this is?
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Something like the Apache foundation - best place (Score:3)
My experience appears to have been identical to that of many that attempted to obtain this government funded open source software that NASA had declared was available for anyone. Eventually due to this open source project becoming closed the project just had to fork and the compatible Torque batch system was developed by people that had actually get hold of the original OpenPBS.