Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:28:07 -0400 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.) Message-ID: <002e01c0f3fb$eb390f60$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <20010613072324.S425-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>
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> -----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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