Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:41:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grasshacker@linkfast.net (GH) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings Message-ID: <200008311541.IAA01995@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000830000414.A56358@linkfast.net> from "GH" at Aug 30, 2000 12:04:15 AM
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> > Crossing that barrier, we have documentation. One of the most > > intriguing, yet piss-poorly documented OSS projects is ZOPE. I > > would really have liked to use it for a project, but of course > > I had to go with PHP instead; much less interesting, much higher > > overhead (it's going to cost me ~$36,000 in extra hardware), but > > > Why would PHP rather than ZOPE cost ~$36,000 in *extra* hardware? > That sounds like a lot of equipment even just for performance(?), > storage(?) differences... It will cost me another machine, since I will have to use network seperation to establish an artificial protection perimeter so that a compromise of my interface services doesn't compromise any other security. If I had the ZOPE security model available, which is a capabilities based model, I would not have to worry about a UI-based compromise. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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