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- From: ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:27:55 GMT
- Subject: Re: clusters
- Message-ID: <7371522@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- > I'd like to see HP reflect back to its customers (via this newsgroup)
- > what it sees as being conflicting needs, both for customer edification,
- > and for further discussion to help HP in formulating a response/plan.
-
- I am *not* speaking for HP of course... I am personally not comfortable
- participating in such a discussion, at least not at any level of detail.
- While it would generate useful feedback, it would also risk annoying
- people. You just can't please all the people all the time, and even if
- you try, you're likely to create friction, just due to differences of
- opinion during the discussion.
-
- Now I hope I'm not annoying anyone by saying that! :-)
-
- Just as a broad example of conflicting needs (as I perceive them) --
- some people are apparently satisfied with the features of HP Diskless as
- it stands today (9.x). While it doesn't inherently make system
- administration easier, the close coupling of server and clients does
- allow administration of N clustered systems (N <= 255) for less than the
- cost of administering two standalone systems (more or less).
-
- But HP Diskless doesn't allow widely heterogeneous clusters -- HP
- systems only, and limitations on the types of those that can be servers.
- There are other limitations too. The conflicting need is between
- more-and-better-of-same and flexible heterogeneous interoperability.
- Personally I always try to provide the greatest possible functionality
- that best fits the needs of the most people with the greatest possible
- adherence to backward compatibility and standards... It ain't easy! :-)
-