[BlueOnyx:12198] Re: Hey Michael! Any idea how many BO boxes are out there?

[Roy Urick]

He and I are paid by the same customer...  I provide the hardware, my 
linux guru does the heavy lifting, and he is supposed to provide the 
code that sits inside the customer's website.

The old code works fine on the customer's vanilla Redhat box. The 
updated code (presumably) works fine on his redhat box. But it has some 
oddities on BO (mainly needing to be tweaked so that it DOESNT make 
calls to http://[url]/admin which conflicts with the BO management 
interface)

They seem to do great work, but honestly I think most of the problem is 
the fact that they have never heard of BO and assume there is much, much 
more black magic under the hood that BO does on top of the OS that is 
conflicting with their code.

And to their credit BO was introduced late in the development cycle when 
the customer needed more flexibility and self-service management than 
his vanilla redhat box with WebMin could offer. (and its time to replace 
the aging hardware anyway)
> On 2/15/2013 9:25 PM, Roy Urick wrote:
>> Possibly the easiest question of the day.
>>
>> Im working through an issue with a skeptical developer who has never
>> heard of the platform before and I am curious. Does anyone have any idea
>> approximately how many BlueOnyx boxes are out there in production around
>> the world?
> In October 2011 (which is the latest number I can put my finger on right
> now) there were over 16000 installations.  That's just BlueOnyx mind
> you, not BlueQuartz.
>
>> I assume Michael has an idea approximately how many due to the yum
>> update connections in the log files. (then again I could be completely
>> off base making wild assumptions)
>>
>> Right now my gut says "alot" but I need a wee bit more accurate number
>> than that to illustrate that this isnt some half-baked, home grown
>> distro thats being used by one guy and his buddies ;)
> Just curious... What's the "developer's" problem?   What's there to be
> "skeptical" about?   Tell him he's paid to develop, not to second guess
> your platform.  ;)  </snark>
>