John P. Campbell wrote: > I'm very interested in following this list to see what people are > doing. I write cluster management software for a living and am always > looking to see how things can be improved. We currently only support > Linux, but I'm hoping we can get some customers to press us into the > *BSD markets as well as that is what I am mostly familiar with. Any chance you might take the time to delineate typical problems that you see and how you typically solve them without jeopardizing your business plan? One of the problems that we face is that our organization has an extremely long-term, data-centric world view. We are still working on resolving 20 year-old datasets and we really can't allow ourselves to be held hostage to a particular platform or especially a particular vendor. Our current apparent dependence on Solaris is causing us enough headaches. We also have to work within our grant funding guidelines, which means that what we do or contract to do becomes public in some fashion or other.