Like Monty Python’s famous dead parrot, the futile Aperi open source storage system management project has fluttered to earth because IBM has removed the funding nail that was keeping it upright. Aperi is now openly dead for all the world to see.
via Aperi dies on its arse • The Register.
Chris Mellor, whom I don’t know except via his writing, has never been a fan of Aperi, or of SMI. A year ago he wrote that Aperi was stalled or maybe dead. (And at that time he indicated HP Storage Essentials was the leading storage management product “because HP is putting resources behind it and the AppIQ team produced a great initial product“. What a nice fellow he must be.) But now it’s clear for all to see that Aperi has joined the choir invisibule.
I wouldn’t like to say whether Aperi’s downfall was in part due to HP’s non-involvement, or whether HP’s non-involvement just exhibits excellent foresight with regard to the future of Aperi. I certainly always felt more comfortable with Aperi as a competitive threat than as an unquantifiable distraction.