Sacha,
I like your notes below in tandem with what I posted earlier.
Essentially there are three main distribution / deployment
models:
a) Download ZIP / Installer package + domain packs
- user installs to their platform of choice
- intended for integraters to deliver end user
solution
b) Bootable CD
- Your details below
- My ebXML appliance software
- Links to online domain packs
c) Hosting option
- a) is installed to hosting service
- access and account management provided
- user signs-up for remote "Google-style" account and
use
DW
"The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)
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Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [ebxml-dev] ebxml virtual
appliance
From: Sacha Schlegel <sacha@schlegel.li>
Date: Thu,
March 15, 2007 10:05 am
To: Bryan Rasmussen <BRS@itst.dk>
Cc:
Ebxml-dev <ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org>
Hi Bryan
There is
a Linux distribution called "Small Business Server" [1]
Copy &
paste of its features:
o Internet Gateway
o Firewall
o VPN
o
E-mail
o Bandwidth and P2P Manager
o Multiwan
o Intrusion
Prevention
o Web and FTP Servers
o Antispam/Antivirus
o Content
Filtering
o File and Print Services
o Data backup
o
Groupware
maybe add the following:
o Asterisk [2], the free
public telephone system
o Free Software ebXML messaging gateway
o Free
Software Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (maybe at
least the
server part of it)
o UBL import and export library for ERP system (do
not know of an
available library yet)
o ... integration of the
pre-setup ebXML messaging gateway with the
pre-setup ERP system.
>From the Linux crowed I know that there are Linksys and D-Link
router
appliances which can be reprogrammed with a different Linux
distribution
[3] (maybe with something like the SME Linux distribution).
Such a SME
appliance will have the total cost of ~ 60$ (hardware and
software
included).
The makers of the Open Source Hermes ebXML
messaging system have been
thinking about an appliance see here
[4].
Not sure what you mean with a "virtual" appliance vs an
"physical"
appliance ...
Regards
Sacha
[1]
http://www.clarkconnect.com/
[2] http://www.asterisk.org/
[3]
http://openwrt.org/
[4] http://www.cecid.hku.hk/projectelf.php
Am
Donnerstag, den 15.03.2007, 12:12 +0100 schrieb Bryan Rasmussen:
> Hi,
I just sent off a question to XML-dev asking for wishes for XML
virtual
> appliances
>
> to-whit "What requirements
should one have for an XML virtual appliance
>
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/cat/44
>
> What
OS should it run (thinking Ubuntu)
> What tools should be configured
and set up.
> What presets should there be.
> What protocols and
presets might be useful.
>
> what tools not yet built should
there be integrated (these probably prerolled
> scripts, for example a
script for checking directory of instances against
> range of Schema
processors etc.)
>
> I figure:
>
> XSV,
>
Schema Quality Checker,
> Sun's multi schema checker
>
Saxon
> Exist
>
> A repository of schemas?
>
"
>
> Thinking of that repository of schemas made me think,
what about an Ebxml
> virtual appliance.
>
>
Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen