Comments on: Andrew’s Corner: What to do in case of vendor collapase? http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/05/andrews-corner-what-to-do-in-case-of-vendor-collapase/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Rich Hickey http://insidehpc.com/2009/02/05/andrews-corner-what-to-do-in-case-of-vendor-collapase/#comment-145559 Rich Hickey Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:33:33 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=3676#comment-145559 After dealing, and still dealing, with the failure of Linux Networx, LNXI, the management staff here at my place of work has expressed the desire to make everything possible COTS components. That way if a vendor expires, we still have a hope of moving forward. The one saving grace with the Linux Networx failure was that under the covers almost all of the components were actually Dell, Cisco, etc. We basically survived the LNXI collapse, not through planning, but through luck of the draw. (-: Risk management would have been great. We relied on luck instead. Welcome to the world of the lowest bidder and $ per Flop mentality. After dealing, and still dealing, with the failure of Linux Networx, LNXI, the management staff here at my place of work has expressed the desire to make everything possible COTS components. That way if a vendor expires, we still have a hope of moving forward.

The one saving grace with the Linux Networx failure was that under the covers almost all of the components were actually Dell, Cisco, etc. We basically survived the LNXI collapse, not through planning, but through luck of the draw. (-:

Risk management would have been great. We relied on luck instead. Welcome to the world of the lowest bidder and $ per Flop mentality.

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