Its amazing how trying new things can lead to unanticipated and wonderful discoveries!
Simply by investigating PureDarwin a little bit, I just found out about the T2 SDE project - which appears to be a quite mature project with similar goals to NODOWS (though I think much grander and wider).
Simply by investigating PureDarwin a little bit, I just found out about the T2 SDE project - which appears to be a quite mature project with similar goals to NODOWS (though I think much grander and wider).