From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 4:32:17 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 B599837B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 04:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from minter@ashburn.skiltech.com) Received: (from minter@localhost) by ashburn.skiltech.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5DBWDB01538; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:32:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from minter) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "H. Wade Minter" X-X-Sender: To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?,opinions please! SAMA article.) In-Reply-To: <002e01c0f3fb$eb390f60$0e00000a@tomcat> Message-ID: <20010613073142.I425-100000@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 Ah. No, for server infrastructure, we pretty much just use one platform - Solaris. My bad. --Wade On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > > -----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