[4841] in Release_7.7_team
Topic for next Owls: Official shutdown of NEOS on Athena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Sep 28 17:56:28 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: owls@mit.edu
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:56:05 -0400
In the process of making a detailed inventory of differences between
Athena and stock Red Hat Linux, we turned up an interesting fact:
NEOS, a significant server and set of software packages in Athena has
not been used since the fall of 2002, the las customer being 10.001.
Back when I was a team leader I tried to entertain an official
migration activity to the Stellar Course Manager. Last time I checked
in on the effort, I was told it was too soon to use Stellar.
It looks like customers have voted with their feet and abandoned NEOS.
I would like to ask for an official sanction to publish a date for
shutting down the eos and eos2 server hosts, and to removing NEOS from
the Athena release.
-wdc
