Having subscribed to this board for quite some time (a time when I was
in a Beowulf admin class with Jeff Layton, followed Greg's work on the
Legion project up the road in Charlottesville, bought our first cluster
from Doug Eadline and Paralogic, and ran into Robert Brown at Linux
Expo), I do not see this as spam or abuse.
Mike Davis
Patrick Geoffray wrote:
Chris,
Chris Dagdigian wrote:
In short, this was appropriate (and interesting). We've all seen
vendor spam and disguised marketing and this does not rise anywhere
close to that level.
I disagree on the level. I use the rule that a vendor should never
initiate a thread, only answer someone else question or correct
stupidities. That prevents abuse.
Do you really want to know when I release new software, when I improve
performance or when I have a new marketing material (actually, I don't
have any) ? Really ? Be careful what you ask for, I don't think you'll
like it when every vendors take this freedom. I agree this list has a
high signal/noise ratio, mainly because it's moderated but also because
vendors are usually careful. For example, Microsoft behaved very well
when Windows Cluster got out, and Microsoft is usually at the extreme of
the marketing spectrum :-)
Patrick
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