Summary: Baracus' vocation might be similar to Hula's now that Microsoft shows up and scoops up parts of Novell

JUST days before Novell was turned into Microsoft dog food [1, 2, 3, 4] the company announced Baracus, which it says "Delivers the Next Generation of System Boot and Build Management".

Here is what it's for:

Novell officially announced the Baracus open project this week as a new effort to provide a network-based boot manager for provisioning and managing systems.

Baracus includes remote boot, provisioning and power management as well as the ability to image, clone and backup systems. With Baracus, Novell is aiming to provide expanded remote boot capabilities beyond what is currently available in open source by way of the Etherboot project and its related technologies.

More information can be found in [1, 2, 3].

Novell announced today the release of and support for an open source project called Baracus that provides a boot and build management system for cloud needs.

This is for Fog Computing, which we'll write about later. Since the project is so young (and it's rarity for such Novell software to be free/open source) we find it hard to believe that AttachMSFT [sic] will bother keeping it. Just like Oracle eliminated many Sun products, this one too may be released only to die, or for the source code to be given to other people, just like Hula in 2006 [1, 2, 3]. It 'dared' to compete with Microsoft's Exchange. ⬆