Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Skewed SA Mag article (was RE: Some ona knows about this?,opinions please! SAMA article.) Message-ID: <20010613073142.I425-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com> In-Reply-To: <002e01c0f3fb$eb390f60$0e00000a@tomcat>
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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
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