From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 4:25:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ashburn.skiltech.com (ashburn.skiltech.com [216.235.79.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EF037B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from minter@ashburn.skiltech.com) Received: (from minter@localhost) by ashburn.skiltech.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5DBPYN00917; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from minter) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "H. Wade Minter" X-X-Sender: To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: , De la Cruz Lugo Eric , Subject: Re: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?, opinions please! SAMA article.) In-Reply-To: <001d01c0f3b6$fe92b9c0$0e00000a@tomcat> Message-ID: <20010613072324.S425-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > One last thing... who in their right mind is going to run that many > different OSes in a production environment? Two versions of Solaris, > Windows 2000 and NT, RedHat (which can be an administration nightmare in and > of itself alone), and OpenBSD. Six different platforms... talk about > insanity. I work for a software company, and we run three different Solaris levels, two AIX, two HP-UX, Irix, Digital/Tru64, i386 Linux, and IA64 Linux, with a couple of desktop Windows boxen thrown in for good measure. Why? We have to get nightly builds for all of the platforms that we support. --Wade To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message