On Wed, Mar 15/00, Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...> wrote:

>
> As for them running Solaris on their game servers, one can only
> hope <g>

Check out this page and let's see if we can come up with any other
ideas.

http://www.verant.com/employment_srsysadmin.html

I'd bet the NT is for customer service people. Probably running some
kind of graphical database query stuff so the CS ppl can access customer
records easily. IRIX would be for the art staff, probably for rendering,
as the artist job requirements list mostly PC type programs like 3d
studio max, so they would likely be using NT as well. Linux probably for
the programmers. They have said their world building software was
custom, so it's a toss up whether that runs on IRIX or NT (possibly
Linux as Linux has had glide libraries for several years and OGL for
about the same) If the programmers are working on Linux I'd even bet
there's a partially functional linux client by this time, just cause
someone would have seen it as a challenge (plus it would save time for
the programmer for the small amount of testing they do) I know that's
how the UO linux client came about.

Brad always says he can't answer when questioned about the server set up
but employment ads can give away an awful lot I think. :)

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