Holger Parplies wrote:
>> Don't get me wrong though, I'm not "gung-ho", I too am conservative, and
>> you have to be in production environments. But i don't think you can be
>> ultra conservative. Clients want secure feature rich servers.
>
> isn't "Clients want ..." quite beside the point?
>
> What do Tim's clients want? Can you tell him that better than he knows?
>
> As far as Tim's clients are concerned, everything is ok. The servers are
> doing everything required of them without fault. Being backed up is
> ***not*** a "service" required of the production server. It's an unavoidable
> nuissance like that it needs power to operate.
>
> As long as there is no failure, nobody is interested in backups.
I've probably been on this soapbox too much already, but what kind of
client do you imagine would _want_ their services running on a platform
with many known bugs and security issues that could have been fixed with
an easy update supplied and recommended by the vendor.
--
Les Mikesell
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