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gpkssts · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:15 am Post subject:

We're experiencing a time of ever expanding environment needs and I wondered how many other people had. The contractors I've worked with and their experience suggests that most people manage with less than we have.

At the moment we have:

- developers own machines (for basic development)
- a development environment (for preliminary testing of the functions)
- a system test environment
- a user acceptance environment
- a pre production environment (for operational testing of procedure, performance testing and the like)
- a live environment
- a pre live project training environment
- a post live business as user training environment
- a post live support environment

I saw in the IBM redbook on managing production environments that got to three or four here : http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247283.pdf

As you can probably imagine environment provision isn't cheap. Especially since each of the environments needs its backend apps too.

Thanks,

Graham