> A new approach is needed regarding maintenance of Linux > images and product installation in general. I'm a strong > proponent of server appliances which are pre-packaged with > optimized OS and applications.
I've been promoting this approach for about a year now, and we deliver most of our product in this form now. There's no technical reason why it can't be done this way, but lots of legal hurdles, which are much more expensive to solve. If you have very careful lawyers, you'll need to satisfy them of the provenance of all the code (the problem that IBM has about distributing Linux is related to this). With something like a Linux distribution, this is a big task. Also, you'd have to provide both a RH and a SuSE-derived version for a number of stupid political reasons, which effectively make this 2 separate products, not one. > What are the chances of such a > thing happening? Technically, it takes approximately a week to produce such a beast, test it, and package it for shipment. Politically, it could take years. If there is interest, I'd be willing to pursue providing the packages to Oracle, or create something custom. We're getting kind of good at this sort of thing...8-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
