The most important issue to deal with when outsourcing is to have a clear idea of whats required yourself - and then to convey the idea accurately to the outsourced people. The biggest problem I've seen is that projects that are not clearly defined end up falling short of expectations. The Outsourced firm then takes advantage of the fact that out of scope works are charged at a very significantly higher rate. Then of course there's change managing those fixes.
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Take a look at Enfusion - a product supported by TurboLinux. http://www.turbolinux.org Commercial support is available.
IBM is commited (so I hear) to support the same failover strategy on linux as it does on AIX.
There's a number of failover strategies listed on http://www.freshmeat.net including failoverd in the past months
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The most important issue to deal with when outsourcing is to have a clear idea of whats required yourself - and then to convey the idea accurately to the outsourced people.
The biggest problem I've seen is that projects that are not clearly defined end up falling short of expectations. The Outsourced firm then takes advantage of the fact that out of scope works are charged at a very significantly higher rate. Then of course there's change managing those fixes.
Take a look at Enfusion - a product supported by TurboLinux. http://www.turbolinux.org
Commercial support is available.
IBM is commited (so I hear) to support the same failover strategy on linux as it does on AIX.
There's a number of failover strategies listed on http://www.freshmeat.net including failoverd in the past months
Conclusion: Get another contractor.