I looked at N1. It is pretty much a pipe dream right now (at least what they claim it will do). SUN pumped it big when the idea of utility computing was the big buzz. They bought two companies, one that does blade image management, the other is high level policy definition for a service you want to provide. They attempted to marry the two together and called it N1. The reality is all the original people left and I haven't heard squat about it since.
OpForce looks interesting. I have not had a chance to evaluate the software. I am not certain if they bought or developed it. First what makes you think you need cfengine? If cfengine is capable of providing value for you organization then illustrating this to your boss should be simple. In other words do you have a lot of machines that are managed ad hoc and suffer from downtime due to operator error? Change you devise a plan that will use cfengine to reduce this downtime? There are other ways to approach this. If your boss has the mindset that simply buying a product will solve his problem, then you have different issues to deal with. On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:46 +0200, Mark Burgess wrote: > Greg, these things are not really comparable. The grid system is about > service oriented archiecture, the vertias thing is about data management > and cfengine is more about configuration level and security. So there is > probably a place for all of these things --- though I have to say that I > am holding off on the grid for now. Grid services seem, to my mind, to > be a potential security chasm. > > M > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:15 +0200, greg wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Did somebody here used, or tried "cfengine competitors" like Sun N1 [1] or > > Veritas OpForce [2] ? > > What is the best way to make my boss decide to use cfengine instead of > > these softwares (except that > > cfengine is a free software) ? > > > > greg > > > > > > > > [1] http://www.sun.com/software/n1gridsystem/ > > [2] > > http://www.veritas.qassociates.co.uk/server-provisioning-veritas-opforce.htm > > -- > > http://www.livretdulibre.org/html-ed2/livret_libre.html > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-cfengine mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Christian Pearce http://www.sysnav.com http://www.commnav.com http://www.perfectorder.com
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