OpenQRM, the open source data-center management platform, announced the availability of a beta version of release 4.0. This is a significant release as it is a complete rewrite and port frmo the Java platform to PHP, focusing on several design specifications:

• KIS (keep it simple)
• run everywhere (support for every linux distribution, especially Debian+Ubuntu)
• clean up (remove all not needed code)
• reduce code base (less code = less bugs)
• using existing components (instead of providing own binaries/libs)
• better packaging and dependencies
• enabling/disabling plugins via the GUI
• support for multiple databases (DB2, Mysql, Oracle, Postgres)
• porting from java to PHP
• focus on rapid-, appliance-based deployment, virtualization- and storage-management
• ease-up installation
• and more...

OpenQRM has seen quite some changes recently, including becoming independent from Qlusters. Those changes don't seem to have had impact on the dynamic of the project though.