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I would love to say that UM was mentioned in a competent
context, but it's mentioned in an infommercial (presented as
a technical article) on the "Coyote Point Equalizer" (p48).
Since LinuxJ is a magazine targetted to technically
competent GPL/opensource people I would expect that they'd
at least tell you whether this was a proprietary box or not
(it's proprietary, but you won't find out in this article).
Even if the author doesn't think this is important to get
this straight, you'd at least think that the editors would.
The infommercial is targetted to people who know nothing
about load balancing (perhaps the author knows nothing about
it either) and is mostly gee-whiz. He mentions Ultramonkey
as an open source balancer, without mentioning LVS. I'm sure
he doesn't know the difference. He says that the reason
you'd want the $10,000 Coyote box with 20 NICs, rather than
an opensource setup on a box with 2 NICs is performance. He
doesn't compare the Coyote box with an opensource balancer
running on the same hardware. Where are the editors here?
When LinuxJ last botched an article on load balancers, I
wrote telling them that there were competent people
available to review submissions, just by looking with
google. They e-mailed me back saying something like "oh
sure, we'll call you next time".
I've been thinking of discontinuing my subscription to
LinuxJ. This just about seals it.
Joe
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