[Legal-general] question re. OSMF's attitude to hosting alternative licence servers

[TimSC]

On 29/07/10 14:37, Nic Roets wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM, TimSC<mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk>  wrote:
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>> But I don't see your point about hardware resources carrying much water. We
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> Perhaps the problem can be reduced by changing priorities or by
> recoding things in C, but the former requires bold sys-admins and the
> latter requires coding skills.
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Yes, I agree we are short on sysadmins and developers, particularly the 
former. I just logged on to the dev server and actually the usage seems 
quite light (or am I reading things incorrectly? I used "top"). There 
may be an overall lack of hardware, but I guess we should ask what the 
finances are like from the treasurer or someone in the know. I think our 
discussions with the OSMF board have not reached that stage. I would 
think it reasonable if OSMF conditionally agrees to alternative license 
databases at this stage, depending on availability of resources. I 
expect rather less of course, but I like unexpected pleasant surprises.

TimSC