Security is an important issue to them so they feel they need physical direct control of the hardware and don't want it located somewhere else.
Also some of the equipment is old and may not survive being transported.
I remember them saying taht alignment and endian issues can only be found when compiling and running on the actual hardware. Cross compile to a different arch and emulators don't catch the same bugs.
No wonder someone mentioned how expensive his electricity bills were. Some of those older machines eat some power. I was looking at old Silicon Graphics servers but the noise and power consumption was too much.
http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg
Security is an important issue to them so they feel they need physical direct control of the hardware and don't want it located somewhere else.
Also some of the equipment is old and may not survive being transported.
I remember them saying taht alignment and endian issues can only be found when compiling and running on the actual hardware. Cross compile to a different arch and emulators don't catch the same bugs.