Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
tried to take a bit of a side adventure and get HP-UX going on a PA-RISC
machine and it's no walk in the park. for cost, support, compatibility
and simplicity reasons i've abandoned the project and decided to use
other OSes instead.
How was your adventure?? Can you be more specific?? I know the cost
part...obviously it is more cheaper run OpenBSD that HP-UX. But i need
more...something really heavy like "I tried to install an OpenLDAP with
HP-UX and the system load with 2000 users rise to the sky...but the same
number of users with OpenBSD had an incredible performance and never
pass from 10% of load"....or whatever...
you CANNOT discount the value of having essentially direct access to the
devs on these lists. the karma and assistance you receive as a result of
making even small donations is considerable and, in my experience,
better than any phone or tech support i've received from companies that
support "enterprise" software. for a fraction of the cost of a support
contract you can get direct access to the programmers and cut out the
nimwits on the phone you have to wade through.
I agree with you...
as jc said, the only situation i can imagine where you'd want to run
something "enterprise" is in the case that you need a monolithic server.
unless the hardware is wacky, i'd still be inclined to run an opensource
OS on it for the support reasons cited above. not very familiar with
LDAP configs here but i imagine there is a way to spread load between
machines, making the monolithic solution pointless.
thanks for the reminder to investigate LDAP more closely... =)
Thanks to you...
Alvaro
