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Regarding #325; I don't know about that; a lot of the stuff that grex uses now is fairly modern (relatively speak, of course). Moving off of SunOS on the Sun 4 was a huge leap forward in technology, literally catching us up by about 15 years. In many respects, it's now on par with other systems. Judicious use of the money that grex has in the bank could further improve the technology new-ness situation. Actually, in some respects, I feel like staff is holding grex back technologically: a lot of things are being done like it's still 1991, sometimes paradoxically. For instance, we're told at once grex hits its hardware really hard, but at the same time told that we can't justify something like hardware RAID. Some of the things that have become almost automatic responses as far as system administration goes are sort of shoved out the window. E.g., someone says, ``highly available storage'' you just sort reflexively respond, ``hot-swappable hardware RAID.'' ``Reliable memory,'' ``ECC.'' ``Chasis profile for colocation,'' ``rackmountable case.'' ``Reliable backups,'' ``tape stacker unit.'' Certainly, some of these things *do* make grex less interesting to those who might otherwise be able to contribe really positively.
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