You may be thinking “who needs another open source High Availability project?” Or, in fact, “why do we need any open source HA project?” For those who do not know, OpenSAF is the latest in a line of open source HA projects that is specifically designed to address high availability and clustering. First we’ll look at what OpenSAF is and then some of the previous open source HA projects. We will look at some of the unique characteristics of the OpenSAF project that make it different from earlier HA projects and more like successful open source examples such as Eclipse or Apache.
