On 8/29/06, Cocoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
so to me there isn't any distinction. being on the net 24/7 is a must.
So you mean "mission critical" == "on the net 24/7" ? There's a different between important and mission critical: Mars Probe Software -- mission critical Your DNS Server for "mydomain.com" -- important Missile Guidance System -- mission critical Your email server -- important Credit Card Processing System -- mission critical Your account management software -- important Software Controlling a Dam -- mission critical Your garage door remote -- important Package Tracking System (for Logistics Companies) -- missin critical A script tracking your Amazon.com order -- important The list can go on, but then you'll start seeing that mission critical serves a much more important purpose than just "keeping your mom and pop's shop open" -- it usually directly deals with human lives, money, and timely information *critical* to the proper operation of societies, equipment, and enterprises. If you think your accounting software is mission critical, then what will you call the software that runs the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones electronic brokerage/dealing system? "Mission Critical" has something to do with scale and relative importance. If your family business' email server wasn't hosted in-house and the router was merely a Linksys Wifi Router, and the web site was hosted in a rented server, then you eliminate the single point of failure which is your solution "the Gentoo box". Had the gentoo box not been there, then there wouldn't be a single point of failure -- and thus a better infrastructure for your family business (which is considerably mission critical).
and i respect that you guys may not have the flexibility i may have in how i accomplish things. and there are limits in your activities.
Flexibility? There are limits in our activities? Wait a minute there... If there were limits in my acitivities I wouldn't have even thought of writing software (and libraries) from scratch. If there were limits in my activities, I wouldn't have been considering other distributions to be used in a mission critical enterprise deployment. If there were limits in my activities I wouldn't be writing this email right now. So please keep your self-initiated criticisms to yourself, and stick to the issues.
"corporate" varies around the world. and the beauty of all this is that we each have solutions to our problems and we do it in different ways.
I've always been under the impression that "corporate" pertains to a setting which is defined by a corporation. It is used as an adjective which denotes something "part of" a corporation's operations (corporate account, corporate service, corporate vision, corporate mission, corporate image, etc.) and I don't think it varies around the world.
like i said, to each his own.
As much as I agree to this, I hardly think using that as an excuse to tell others how "flexible" you are and how "limited" others are is even acceptable. But yeah, to each his own. -- Dean Michael C. Berris C/C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs http://3w-agility.blogspot.com/ http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ Mobile: +639287291459 Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
