[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Evan Schoenberg]

Thanks to a -very- generous donor (I don't know yet whether he wants  
to remain anonymous or not, so I'll keep it that way for now), we  
have the funds to get an XServe, for which Thomas of Network Redux  
has awesomely promised us free hosting with rack space.  I think  
we'll get quite a few tangibles from having a powerful OS X based  
server. Colin has offered to set up and administer an automated build  
environment for automatic compilation and testing of commits.  We've  
discussed previously running a Jabber server for use by Adium  
developers... and so on.

The real question, I think, is timing.  Looking at http:// 
buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Xserve you can see that it's been 2 weeks  
over a year since the last XServe line refresh by Apple.  My gut is  
that it's worth waiting a bit - it looks like the next chip for the  
XServe will most likely be a quad-core chip with some significantly  
improved performance.  What do y'all think?

Finally, does anyone have an ADC Select or Premiere hardware discount  
they aren't planning to use this year and would be willing to let us  
use to be able to further upgrade the new machine as we order it,  
whenever we decide to do that?

Cheers,
Evan
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