On 3/22/07, Michael DeHaan <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Wow, a post about Cimbiote :) I'm happy and sad at the same time. You're basically the first person who has asked about it. Cimbiote is now largely unmaintained, and I should update the web page to indicate we are looking for a new owner. I would really like to see someone who is well connected with CIM development help continue it.</blockquote><div> I would like to take ownership of Cimbiote if you're looking for a new owner. I added support for associations to Cimbiote a couple of months back, but haven't got around to testing it thoroughly yet, which is why I haven't submitted the patch yet. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> At the time when it was written we saw a lot of large company interest in CIM and wanted to help out in making writing providers easier for those that were not CIM experts -- writing CIM providers is way too painful, and documentation is scarce. Standardized interfaces, we thought, were definitely a good idea, but the problem was these standards were overcomplicated and that created a high barrier to entry for open-source players (who generally preferred simpler and more transparent technology). Unfortunately, we were unable to drum up community interest among pegasus-list and open source CIM project leaders. </blockquote><div> I did a presentation on pywbem and Cimbiote at Management Developers Conference (<a href="http://mandevcon.com"> mandevcon.com</a>) back in December. I believe the current CIM/WBEM community isn't very interested in a Python provider interface because to date, most of this group has been involved in embedded environments such as BMCs, where python is not guaranteed to be present. </div></div>