Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: Macs in the Navy(?)
Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: Macs in the Navy(?)
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: Macs in the Navy(?)
- From: Amanda Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:59:00 -0400
On Apr 13, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Orth, Lonny J CIV N62306 wrote:
Notice you say that the XServes are running Linux, not OSX.
They must have had one of those requirements like "server must be
1U size and run Linux", and their contract department must have
gotten the lowest bid for the XServes. I would truly be surprised
to hear of any Navy command that uses Mac OSX directly, especially
on a server.
That's fair; I don't recall the details, but I think it was NUWC, and
that they are/were running them effectively as a shipboard Beowulf
cluster--2 G5s in 1U short depth (booting off of flash, no drives)
was the densest platform (Gflops per unit volume) available at the time.
All Dells with state-of-the-art Windows 2000 SP4!
Ah, yes--I ran into bunches of Win2K boxes described as "the current
standard" in my last project, so the Navy is not the only service
affected by this particular bit of inertia.
[...] not to mention it would cost the command more money to
maintain IT support personnel trained on Mac OS.
This is something I also ran into, and knowing how all of the
services like to slot people into and out of jobs as they advance
through the ranks, I can almost see the logic ... not quite, but almost.
I also ran into "Office 2000" as the mandated file format for
deliverables, etc. Even though the contract specified
"reproducible", not "editable", PDF was ruled out. This led to some
gallows humor in the contracting team along the lines of "your tax
dollars at work, bringing you yesterday's technology tomorrow..." :-)
Amanda Walker
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