On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:07:44 +0100, Administrator wrote:
<snip lots of stuff I agree with>
It seems to me the sensible thing to do is to stay aware of the situation with Novell and *if* something happens to the company, react to that announcement *when it happens* because the odds of the entire infrastructure just being powered off the instant an announcement is made are really quite small. In the incredibly unlikely event that situation were to happen, a core group (the board) would already know how to contact each other and start work to get an infrastructure up, domain names transferred and so on, and get the systems back online as soon as possible.
Here I disagree. There is the possibility that at some time (sooner or later) OS will need an alternative supplier of infrastructure. It is sensible for any organisation to prepare plans (but not enact them) against such a major and likely eventuality. Maybe the board is already doing so.
Perhaps they are - though as Jos pointed out, the infrastructure donation Novell has made is rather valuable, having something that costly "on standby" is likely to be fairly expensive as well. Hot site backups don't come cheap. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org