[Adium-devl] Hardware plans

[Colin Barrett]

WOW!

Yes, an Xserve would be MUCH better than an equivalent number of Mac  
minis.

I'm still not sure waiting for 10.5 is necessary -- I think we should  
buy the hardware after the next upgrade (when that will be, who  
knows). Let's cross the OS Upgrade bridge when we come to it.

-Colin

On Aug 19, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> 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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