Lhasa, Tibet in a cyber cafe across from the Banak Shol. Such a deal -- only 2 juan (~20 cents) an hour, including the free email proofreading by big brother.
"walt-sjc" has a great response and has been in this boat before.
My recommendation is to be careful not to kid yourself, adding another unix (does anyone remember Eunice?) to your production environment is akin to adding another OS, which is akin to adding people.
You might ask the opinion of any person who thought they had a nice simple homogenous Sun shop and then went through the BSD->Solaris transition.
For example many of your tools that autonomously update configs/etc may now need a person in the loop.
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Lhasa, Tibet in a cyber cafe across from the Banak Shol. Such a deal -- only 2 juan (~20 cents) an hour, including the free email proofreading by big brother.
(1 sports career + $2500 fine ) / (1 bite)
6 .h tm
Such a deal.
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This is a reasonable question.
"walt-sjc" has a great response and has been in this boat before.
My recommendation is to be careful not to kid yourself, adding another unix
(does anyone remember Eunice?) to your production environment is akin to
adding another OS, which is akin to adding people.
You might ask the opinion of any person who thought they had a nice simple homogenous Sun shop and then went through the BSD->Solaris transition.
For example many of your tools that autonomously update configs/etc may now need a person in the loop.
Easy: License management, home-grown admin scripts, home-grown bins
Harder: Backups.
PITA: Crash recovery
Expensive: Tracking OS & Application patches, security. Chaseing hardware. Maintenance agreements.
The last 2 categories can make "another unice" approach the cost of "another
OS".
These obviously aren't reasons not to do it, just reasons for your management
to go in with your eyes open.