This article over at Slashdot caught my attention. I routinely read Slashdot for the daily musings about the RIAA and general tech news, but rarely do I find articles that can be applied to our industry. Today I found an interesting discussion sprung from a naive question about clustering and high availability. While the OP’s topic is aimed at web servers, the commentary by Slashdot readers had some insightful viewpoints and many (e.g.

It’s often said that the strength of a small business is agility. However, this is misleading; the real strength of a small business is the ability to employ a select and highly skilled group of workers. It’s the abilities and talents of those workers that give the small organization its flexibility. Without the workers ability to wear multiple hats and to retrain quickly, the small business is left without that key agility.

Yet, you want/need to give the users to certain control panel elements. The triCerat product does not have a built-in menu or system for publishing these items to the user. Don’t worry, your goal is simple to accomplish through the use of shell hooks.

As I had mentioned in a previous blog, I read Slashdot on a regular basis. I have been reading Slashdot for my own personal amusement months and before today I had never come across an article that was really relevant to our industry or triCerat. Today, I found two. This article is a great open forum discussion of nearly every aspect of Server 2k8.