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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/