[rescue] NFS Server?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Feb 23 21:41:25 CST 2002


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:33:54PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On February 23, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > > Why not Auspex?
> > > 
> > > Because they're dead.  Their technology is old and they don't spend any
> > > $ on R&D, at all.  I don't know of a single new auspex box in the past
> > > few years..if so, not one that has been purchased and in production.
> > > They were before netapp, netapp is now.
> > 
> > Were you really going to buy yourself a new NetApp?  I thought we were talking
> > about stuff a collector could get, not a system for a current business.
> 
>   ...because after all, you can't conduct current business on hardware
> that isn't being sold today.  And all hardware that isn't being sold
> today is just for collectors and play-toys, right?  We all know that?
> 
>   Come ON, man. ;)   *poke poke*

No, it's not that.  I just wouldn't want to inflict the pain of trying to 
recommend used gear to higher ups on other people.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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