[BlueOnyx:08766] Re: A member of our community passes

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>Forgive me, this is not a technical posting.  I pass this information
>along because I have always considered this list as more than just a
>technical list-serv.  We are a community.
>
>This is late in coming, but I only learned today.  Darrell Mobley, a
>frequent contributor to the BlueOnyx (and BlueQuartz before it) list,
>has passed away.  Darrell's last post to this list was on August 4 and
>his death was just 5 days after on August 9, 2011.  He was 54 years old.
>
>Darrell has been a customer of ours since 2006 and was an ardent fan of
>the BlueOnyx platform and a vivid personality on this list.   As with
>many of you that I know as fellow BX users and/or customers, I have long
>considered Darrell a friend.
>
>I called Darrell to check in on him today after we had not heard from
>him regarding some alarms that his server was generating.  When his
>Apache failed to respond for 4 hours, we were escalated to investigate
>and restore as per our standing SLA with him.  That was the first time
>that we had stepped in without being asked, and that struck me as odd.
>Darrell's mother answered the phone and told me the news.
>
>Again, forgive me if the post is not of the usual content, but I felt it
>was worthy of mention here.
>
>--
>Chris Gebhardt
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