After much deliberation, and I must say – struggle… I’ve decided to go open-source with RapidACE. The company itself will “disolve”, but the software will be made available. It will take me some time (a couple months from now) to get all the licenses in place, and the edits done in order to release a semi-stable version of the code. I am not exactly sure yet how or where I will release the code, but I will post when I’m ready. In the mean-time, if you are interested in RapidACE, what it used to do, what it does today – maybe a history of the company and code, then feel free to subscribe to this feed. I will be changing this site over to a “blog” about the tools in this space that enable data warehousing to be built better faster and cheaper.
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Thank-you kindly,
Dan Linstedt
Hi Dan,
That’s great news, I look forward to pickup up the code and continuing with it.
Regards,
Roelant
Dan, I just read this post: http://rapidace.com/news/rapidace-sourceforge-project/ and this basically answers my questions already – yes, the intention is to keep developing rapidACE, and yes, you are inviting people to help out. Great – this really is very good news
Hi Dan!
this is a great and courageous move, kudos! I assume that open sourcing the software is done in the hopes that it will help the methodology prevail and proliferate. I hope this will be a big success.
I’m wondering a bit about how you phrased this: “The company itself will “disolve”, but the software will be made available”. Does this mean you will just release what is there, or are there intentions of actively maintaining the software? And in that case, do you envision development by an open source community?
Anyway, data vault practitioners will now have two open source tools to choose from – rapidACE and Quipu – and I think that a bit of healthy competition will be a good thing for everybody.
kind regards,
Roland Bouman
Hi Roland,
Yes, I have intentions to continue “poking, prodding, and developing” bits and pieces of RapidACE as I go forward. But the “company” disolving means that it will no longer be an “official company” – all the IP of RapidACE will still be done under the RA web-site and name, however, any “services” I offer around RapidACE will be done through my main company: Empowered Holdings, LLC as just another consulting offering.
This includes custom template development.
Hope this helps,
Dan L
Congratulations Dan!
Thanks Matt