[nycbug-talk] Lab environment

[Sunny Dubey]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 05:52 pm, G.Rosamond wrote:
> Spoke to a vendor (GCS, who's rep is cc'd) and they are willing to lend
> us hardware for any test scenario.
>
> I put out the idea of comparing FBSD with ipfw, NetBSD with ipf, and
> OpenBSD with pf, but the dominant interest seemed to be around
> networking protocols.
>
> One problem is that if we do want to include AFS,

Are we speaking Andrew File System (IBM/Carnegie-Mellon) or something of 
Apple's ?

> Thoughts?
>

Well, I spoke to a friend of mine.  He is a fellow Mandrake user, and he is 
also the primary admin of one of the largest clusters in the world (USC).  
He says the best way to test two different architectures for something like 
this is by price.

Yeah, doing it by price seems somewhat weird.  But essentially its too 
difficult for numerous reasons to compare different OSes on different 
targets.  So if you have 2 grand, which combination will give you the 
biggest bang for your buck ?

He also says that while pricing might be the fairest approach, it is also 
skewed because vendors like Apple sell at a much higher profit-margrin, and 
can greatly reduce their prices depending on who the purchaser is.  (All 
major vendors do this sorta thing, IBM, HP, SGI, etc etc etc)

*shrug*

All questions and comments can be passed along to him.

Sunny Dubey