RE: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?


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From: William Pechter [mailto:pechter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (none)]
Sent: May 26, 2007 7:52 AM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?


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Having source code to the OS allows you to fix your own problmes.
Counting on a vendor to do what they should do is leaving your fate in
others hands. I've taken software issues to DEC, Sun, IBM etc.
Sometimes the response is excellent... sometimes the response is
dependant on the financial state and staff load at the company.

At least Open Source (and Solaris is getting there) gives you the
option
to do it yourself.


Regards
Andrew Harrison



Bill
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Yep, of course that assumes that you know and understand advanced kernel
resource scheduling, SMP synchronization techniques, cluster
co-ordination logic, IO driver debugging, thread synchronization in SMP,
clustered environments etc etc.

And yes, you can throw your problem out on some list server or newsgroup
or web forum and hope that someone who really does understand these
issues has the time and energy to not only understand the issue, but
also develop a patch for the problem.

And of course, once you customize your environment, then you have to
ensure that all future security patches, OS upgrades etc do not break
because of the Custom code you installed.

Open source was the hot topic for awhile, and will certainly have a
place in some areas.

However, a trend I see emerging right now is that many med-large Cust's
do not want their IT staff playing in the OS weeds. They would much
rather their senior IT folks engaging with the Business Units to better
understand their issues and working with them to understand how IT can
add value to their bottom lines.

Regards


Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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