zaterdag 12 december 2009

OpenPipeline dead?

A year ago DieselPoint ("search and navigation technology") was promoting their open source project OpenPipeline. When I was reading the promising intention I was enthousiast about this initiative.

OpenPipeline intented to break open the closed source solutions to connect to different information sources and file formats. That would break down the walls of the vendors like Autonomy that protect their technology that enables the extraction of data from a variaty of sources and fileformats.

Now, a few months later, there is no more information coming from this project.

I wonder why the project is now inactive.
- was it a marketing trick from DieselPoint to get attention?
- Has Dieselpoint come to the conclusion that this problem of connectors can not be solved so easily?
- Has DieselPoint decided that they should not be so open?
- Is there not enough willingness from the community to participate?

1 opmerking:

Anoniem zei

Definitely not dead. We released version 0.8 a few days ago.

We've been actively working behind the scenes on a number of architectural changes and a number of new stages and connectors.

Expect to see substantial improvements in the new year, with a number of new participants in the community.