From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 29 12:08:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13867 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:08:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13746 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Fri May 29 14:08 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id OAA26235 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:07:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Fri, 29 May 1998 15:14:03 -0400 Message-ID: To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What to do with this thing ?! Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 15:14:02 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Wilko Bulte[SMTP:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] > > As sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote... > > > Why would anyone want an extension of this kind ? There exists > > a class of paranoia requiring the master and backup > > servers be located as far from each other as possible to > > protect from disasters like fire. Sure, the automatic fire fighting > > systems do exist but would a computer work soon after a freon > > bath or covered by lots of dust from smoke generators ? > > Well, if you could see the amount of questions we get at my employer > rest assured people *do* want these things. > Would your employer be interested in such a thing ? :-) > > So, the first question is: does anybody see any commercial > perspectives > > for this project ? May be in the low-end server market ? May be, > > for non-Unix servers ? If yes, I would like to hear any offers :-) > > Well, look at the website of EMC2 for example. This is viable, but it > will > I know, I had a talk with EMC peoples about their products (on an unrelated matter). But they are working at the high-end and top-end servers market. > probably only fly if there is a big organisation backing it. > :-( -Sergey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message