Re: 7.4 Press Release -- Draft #3

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Robert Treat wrote:

> A couple of people have asked about this so let me expand on this
> ambiguous note. There a couple of folks, led by Andrew Sullivan, who are
> looking at releasing the replication code first used by Afilias, Inc
> (the folks running the .org/.info domains). I should point out that it
> is not the latest and greatest version of the code, and that it is not
> as good as what you would get if you were to purchase the commercial
> version of ERServer (at least that's what I've been told), but it has
> been tested in an enterprise level setting so would cover a lot of
> ground in the replication arena if it were to be included. I want to
> stress that as of now there is nothing in CVS, so as far as we're
> concerned, it's all vaporware. If they do get it in we'll we can rework
> the press release, but until then it's best to proceed with things as
> planned.

eRServer v1.0 is going to be released open source (we wanted to do so
before I went on holidays, but we have a bit of docs work to do up) ...
but, it won't be included *in* the distribution itself, but as a seperate
package ...