[Bioclusters] Fwd: LSF vs its "Closest Competitor" -- conclusion

[Ron Chen]

Ok, folks. I am sure everyone will be very mad (if not
already?) at me if I continue to forward e-mails from
other lists about this topic.

Let's end this discussion now.

Just one thing that I would like the Platform guys on
this list to do, please let upper management know
about this discussion thread, let them know what
people on  are talking about.

Selling good products is not evil, nor not
opensourcing the product. (e.g. DB2, Oracle, etc are
not opensource). The problem is that if their sales
team provide "misleading" information to new users.
This is not good to the whole batch system inductry,
as everyone knows that one size does not fit all.
Choice is good.

Note that if people keep seeing a company spreading
FUD, they would simply totally ignore the companies
products. (see Wendy's: "I've learned to take their
words with a grain of salt.")

 -Ron

--- Wendy Lin <af5@taiyang.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:
> Right before the sc2002 conference, Platform
> Computing (the LSF 
> vendor) had words out saying they were going to
> demonstrate a TRUE 
> grid at the conference.
> I found out later what they had were ways to do
> "leasing" and 
> "forwarding". I'd not say they lied, but their
> definition of a grid 
> was certainly different from mine, and most likely
> other people's as 
> well.
> 
> I've learned to take their words with a grain of
> salt.
> 
> -- 
> Wendy Lin
> -------------
> IT Research Computing Services
> af5@taiyang.cc.purdue.edu
> http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu/~af5/
>
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