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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/13/2014 04:15 PM, Lightner, Jeff
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<pre wrap="">Sorry - as noted the only involvement I've had so far was the DNS record. Whether they allow SQL queries from here to there or are using them if they do I couldn't say.
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<small>Thanks. I've contacted them and will find out.</small><br>
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Here there are certain things they think we don't need to know until they break at which point it suddenly becomes a "Linux issue" and becomes our problem. Our first VMWare server was like that. It had only MS Windows guests so we weren't involved on the install or virtual setups until a simple reboot didn't fix whatever issue they were having 2 years after install at which point the MS team said it was "Linux" server that we needed to address. The irony of having to ask MS Admins for root password on a Linux system seemed lost on them. We've also run into it for other systems/appliances with embedded Linux run by Telecom and Network groups but usually those at least were more along the lines of assisting them than suddenly taking ownership.
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<small>Same here. I'm getting rid of some "hobbies" of mine around
the office. Over time as we had hardware died I've moved those
duties to RackSpace. SugarCRM is there now. After spending 10
hours trying to revive the failed server I decided to add it to
the growing list at RS. One hour later we were back up. For
that software I needed their smallest package and I calculated
that it would take 7+ years of fees for that VM to equal the 1U
server I was looking at to replace the failed hardware.</small><br>
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Chris<br>
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