Application configuration and environments keep getting more and more complex. Just setting up a LAMP environment for say SugarCRM gets to be a chore that requires quite a lot of specialized knowledge.
One solution is just to go the hosting route, e.g. for SugarCRM go with an ASP like http://www.iradeon.com/ or http://www.rpstechnology.com/?src=gsugarhost or http://www.siteground.com/sugarcrm-hosting.htm Another approach is to grab a "virtual appliance" image as a starting point. I had not seen this before but VMWare is pushing Virtual Appliances A virtual appliance is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and operating system environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server in a self-contained, isolated environment known as a virtual machine. Virtual appliances provide an evolutionary step in the software distribution model. http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/index.html Comments, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
