At 12:34 AM 4/1/2006 +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
Uhm, may I ask *why* you'd want an off-the-shelf product instead of your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly? What problem are you trying to solve?
I can't speak for the original poster, but I've worked for shops that preferred not to depend on locally written software. That way, staff turnover wasn't nearly as much an issue; whoever was the SysAdmin of the month merely needed to know what vendors to call if something started acting up. Besides, commercial software *must* be better than any locally written code, right? (Don't answer that; that was thinly disguised sarcasm, tinged with disgust.) Speaking only for myself, Nick
