Future of open-source (Re: Windows virtualization and Linux)

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:03:58PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> Dan Ritter asked:
> > Can you say what you are running?
> 
> Well, lessee... DoubleClick back end servers.  Oracle.  Zend on the www hosts.
>  UserPlane.  Ticket tracker is from Atlassian Software.  In QA, we have HP
> LoadRunner.  All our MySQL servers are on an Enterprise Gold contract.  The
> list goes on.  Sure, I'm comfortable with 100% open source on the systems
> side, but everything I do is in support of other teams who tell me what apps I
> have to run.

Ah-hah!

But that's not your budget, that's theirs. Or you should be
careful to show the allocations back to them, anyway. They chose
the software, they have to pay for it.

> But to get/give any real benefit to it, you absolutely have to (1) yank out
> any hostname- or application-specific stuff related to the internal systems,
> and (2) recompile/re-run in an offline environment.  I.e., some level of QA
> before I can upload to SourceForge, develop some PowerPoints and present at,
> say, a future BLU meeting.  Labor cost may not be much, but it's not zero.

Indeed.

> And you can see how overloaded with work I am...note the job posting that I
> made earlier today (and on two other occasions during the past year).  This
> time I got a couple responses, hopefully I'll have done my little part to ease
> the recession for a couple of families.

I hope it works out for you.

-dsr-

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