Re: HP's Testdrive being replaced.
[email protected] ("John E. Malmberg")
| Newsgroups | perl.perl5.porters,perl.vmsperl |
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Craig Berry wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 01, 2008, at 03:23PM, "Michael G Schwern" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> HP is shutting down it's testdrive program which gives logins to its many >> operating systems (see also VMS) for developer evaluation and testing. It's >> replacing it with something called HP Partner Virtualization Program which it >> says is better and will make you smell nice and be more attractive. > > It also requires that you be a company member of their Developer and > Solution Partner Program (DSPP). I believe Merijn has had some > contact with HP folks who are aware this is not the best fit for open > source developers and there is hope that something more workable can > be arranged. One of the existing VMS testdrive hosts had the ability to NFS mount the common home drive for the *NIX machines, so you could use the gnu utilities like rsync on the Linux machines to pull over files. If the *NIX machines are gone, I do not know how that could work. -John [email protected] Personal Opinion Only