Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/12/2010 09:33 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: >> If you have applications that only run on C3, then it provides the >> information necessary for maintaining future C3 installations on newer >> hardware that C3 does not natively support. > > Yes, also in many cases the app being hosted on the platform could > exposes services in a self contained manner ( a legacy DB ? ), taking it > off the wire natively allows the app to run inside the virtualised > container without needing to rely on C3's iptable or ssh ( as an example > ), which might in turn have reported public vuln's no longer being patched. > > - KB I totally agree : just *try* to imagine the number or running Red Hat Linux 7.2 still used in production :-) One argument in favor of the virtualization (given by Red Hat at a seminar) was that if you *still* have to maintain legacy apps, virtualization is the way to go, and of course in a separate vlan and not faced to the wild web ... -- -- Fabian Arrotin