Hmm Ok, that fairly well answers my post of a couple of minutes ago. My only comment to the software load balancing, compensation clauses being pushed out of sight for the moment, is that there are a number of clusters out there run by various companies blah blah blah and they seem to use the software with quite high efficiencies. Now these clusters are sized from the small 2 node jobs up to the 125+ ones. In fact the most quoted common concern appears to be that of both hardware failure and reliable backups.
Ok, Ian is leaving the house so you can get the compensation clause back out now E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Harrison Sent: 10 September 2007 21:57 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal... Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:28 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > >> Others may have a different opinion, and if they're prepared to >> underwrite (with funds lodged in an escrow account) my company's loss of >> income were we to have any downtime because of an Ubuntu failure, I'm >> willing to read their support proposals :-) > Do Cisco do that? > > :) > > Cheers, > Al. No, nor did I ask them to.... any more than I'd hold Canonical responsible for use of Ubuntu in any place where their own consultants hadn't specified it. However, the VAR who installed the Cisco 11000s (the LBs that Cisco had bought from Arrowpoint and re-branded) for us - THEY did :-) And, indeed, the following year, I got £210,000 in compensation out of them (not for the Load-Balancing, BTW, but for another "site not as promised" claim). I got a fairly good bonus that year :-) :-) Ah, the glory days of the dot com boom, I miss them :-( Of course, the supplier in question went into Chapter 11 shortly afterwards, and never really came out of it (their assets are owned by C&W now), but not because of that particularly warranty, I stress :-o Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
