On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2009-05-22 Ross Cameron wrote: > > > Certainly the hardware chosen isnt anywhere NEAR potent enough,... and > u're > > leaving ure whole configuration open for attack via the ESXi sub layer. > > > > Why not just port the custom app to OpenBSD and run the configuration > > natively on the hardware? > > There are apps on Windows for which "porting" to OpenBSD would be roughly > equivalent to "porting" to NetWare Virtual Loadable Module. > > Maybe he doesn't mind doing it all over from scratch, but that's about what > it > might turn out to be. True but then again I generally find that rewriting and targeting the code for portability and re-use is worth the efforts in the long run. Painting you're self into a corner with regards to coding standards/languages/host OS are generally just a headache waiting to happen in the years to come.
