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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Maintenence-free UNIX?
Message-ID: <1167@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 19:45:36 GMT
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Reply-To: gentry@genco. (Art Gentry)
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>In article <90282.125053RMG3@psuvm.psu.edu> RMG3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
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>  The question is - 'Is maintenence-free UNIX an oxymoron?'
>  I have a very serious reason for asking the question, humorous
>though it may seem at first glance. 

That is a very reasonable question, with a very unreasonable answer.  It's
damn tough, if not impossible to make unix totally maintenance free.  That's
why my company offers a service that make a unix system maintenance free,
as far as the users are concerned.  We do remote system admin/mgmt.  For
a set fee per month (depends on the size of the installation), we take 
care of all the mundane (and not so mundane) tasks in keeping a unix box
well fed and happy.  That way all the users have to worry about is running
thier applications.  There are just too many things that still need a
human interface to be able to totally automate it.
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