Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

Posted May 26, 2009 23:23 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released by martinfick
Parent article: Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

I would think it strange that you would be planning to use older hardware (than you are using now) in the future.

Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

Posted May 27, 2009 3:44 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

I'm not sure how you interpretted my statement that way, but I do see that it was unclear. I will try to rexplain it better.

What I meant was, although an OS may currently support your current hardware, it would seem wise to think about whether this OS will support your hardware in the future before commiting to that OS. Two possible specific problematic scenarios I would consider are: "will this OS sustain enough development to support future currently non existing hardware that you might want to upgrade to?" and "will the OS developers care enough about my current hardware when it becomes old to not drop support for it in future versions of the OS?"