From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Jun 13  4:29:54 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B80637B401
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from hornback@wireco.net)
Received: (qmail 4952 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jun 2001 11:28:52 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.49)
  by mounet.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 11:28:52 -0000
From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?,opinions please! SAMA article.)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:28:07 -0400
Message-ID: <002e01c0f3fb$eb390f60$0e00000a@tomcat>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0
Importance: Normal
In-Reply-To: <20010613072324.S425-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Wade Minter [mailto:minter@lunenburg.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:26 AM
> To: Andrew C. Hornback
> Cc: joel2a@yahoo.com; De la Cruz Lugo Eric;
> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about
> this?,opinions please! SAMA article.)
>
> 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.

	Right... but are all of those systems used as infrastructure (i.e. in a
server role)?

	That's what the authors of the article are doing.

	I realize that when you're developing for multiple platforms that you need
at least one machine per OS that you're developing for, as a test mule.
But, do you really need to use those same OSes as corporate servers if
that's not the kind of software that you're developing?

--- Andy


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message