On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:27:48 +0100, Administrator wrote:
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.
It's not so much having a hot standby, but having a plan of what you would do, and having had "what if" discussions with potential supporters / suppliers. It's fairly standard in for any business-critical service for the customer to have informal and confidential discussions with the current supplier's competitors to see what options there are. I would suggest that some such is needed here.
True, and I certainly can't/wouldn't dispute that a contingency plan is a good thing to have. But part of such a plan would have to include how to pay for it if it had to be put in place. Perhaps such discussions are underway.
Obviously a difficult thing for the Novell board members to be party to, or indeed for the competitors to supply any serious information knowing the Novell board members would see it.
Well, I could see it being difficult from the standpoint of steering clear of any discussion/speculation about Novell's future, but in terms of planning, I don't see that there should be any difficulty. As an employee myself, I know the difficulty all of us "on the inside" are faced with when it comes to this type of speculation (because we're expressly barred from discussing any potential scenarios for legal reasons), but in terms of service continuation? I personally don't see that there should be any problem in discussing it. The thing that ultimately needs to be done is a contingency plan, but without the "the sky is falling" feeling based on speculation based on rumours in some of the press or based on the idea that if the sponsor were to be acquired or broken up that services would stop *immediately* when an announcement were made. 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