[Nut-upsdev] Asking hard questions about the NUT architecture

[Arjen de Korte]

>> > Size of the potential userbases.  For every large-system sysadmin who
>> > actually needs a setup like that, I would be astonished if there were
>> > fewer than a hundred single-UPS/single-system setups out there.  Just
>> > looking at the piles of consumer-grade USB-UPS boxes at Computer
>> > Center told me that --  the store expects to sell those in *volume*.
>> And how many of those are Windows only?  The target audience of those
>> UPS boxes is most likely the home user, who is unlikely to be running
>> anything else.
> You know, I would have agreed with you -- until I noticed that the
> Belkins I bought came with (closed source) Linux-hosted monitoring
> software and installation instructions.

Usually designed for RedHat 7.1 or something equally old like that and
never touched since. Chances are that the bundled 'Linux' software is too
old to be of any real use.

> Belkin apparently thinks Linux users are a significant piece of the
> potential market.  Otherwise, they wouldn't have incurred the NRE
> to support Linux.

See above. How many UPS vendors ship something that actually works on *NIX
that can be considered state-of-the-art.

> In any case, even if most of those are going to be Windows-only...
> don't we want to try to take seats from Windows?

I doubt that UPS monitoring software is going to be the killer application
that will make people abandon Windows.

Best regards, Arjen
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