JJ Gitties wrote:
On 11/14/06, *J Sloan*
mailto:joe@tmsusa.com> wrote: I introduced linux to this company back in the 1990s, as I set up slackware, then redhat boxes, as secondary mail/dns, and also introduced the big brother monitoring system on linux. Eventually linux took over as primary and secondary smtp and dns servers, as well as taking on ftp and time services. For years we used redhat, but migrated everything over to Novell/SuSE in 2004, while also migrating more infrastructure from hpux and solaris over to Novell SLES. The change has been good, with increased uptime and availability of services.
dinky hosts that provide NTP, FTP and nagios I don't personally consider major Linux deployments... but to each their own.
Not sure what you mean by dinky hosts, nor why you're deprecating ntp and ftp, especially since you have no idea of the environment you're dismissing. Keeping 1000 servers within a second of each other is an important job here, as is the corporate ftp service. BTW we're not using nagios. Our mail system serves 13,000 internal users, handles about 10 million messages/month, and has a very effective spam quarantine management system. If that's dinky, I'd love to hear about your deployments. Our dns serves 750+ domains (times 6 views) and I clocked one of boxes doing 28,000 queries per second, with very low load average. If that's dinky, please tell me all about your awesome deployments. I'm also eager to hear your criticism of why nis/nfs and rsync services are dinky and unimportant, so please dive in!
Fine. I will take your word for it and assume you are not BS'ing. I guess were you live Novell do a better job selling. You aren't based out of Provo, Utah are you? ;-)
Nope, good old California - we preferred suse and were moving that direction even before Novell bought them, but it did help that Novell is a well established company. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org