On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale@gmail.com> wrote:

We have limited support of sparc because we don't have any machines to work on.
You should consider finalizing your support contract and maybe let us
find you a consultant to help you with that.

Hi Anthony,

*Sigh* I was afraid you would say that. Honestly, there's nothing I'd like more than to _not_ have to spend days doing all these techno-acrobatics just trying to compile and/or run the software that's going to be the most important piece in building our service. Unfortunately, we're not a funded company. Which is why we're stuck with the old Sun equipment that we've had, relics of our old service that didn't take off. They're still pretty good servers and they hardly got used even if they're 6 years old running on 64-bit 600Mhz UltraSparcII :(

So, we need to find a happy medium here, ideally. I don't mind talking about the support contract however and get a sense of what it will actually cost before I just reject the offer without even knowing the cost.

An alternative/counter-offer could be , how about I donate one of these v100 Sparc servers to the project to build/test against since you said that the support for Sparc is limited? :)