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.)

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ebxml-dev] ebxml virtual appliance From: Sacha Schlegel <sac...@schlegel.li> Date: Thu, March 15, 2007 10:05 am To: Bryan Rasmussen <BR...@itst.dk> Cc: Ebxml-dev <ebxm...@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