Lebar, Russell J wrote:
Binaries for Solaris are distributed from a number of
different places. Security-conscious sites (if there are any
left!) will build from source anyway, but the notion that
Solaris binaries are somehow unavailable is bunk. They're
just not found in the same places as the Linux binaries.
There's a difference between contributed, community supported binaries
and vendor supported ones. Company policy may prevent installing the
contributed binaries. And by definition vendors can insure better
integration with the target platform since the target platform is their
own. With a contributed binary I may have dependancy issues or conflicts
with other software installed on the system to deal with.
Please forgive the disagreement, but I've found time and time again
that "vendor support" for software is near-useless for most
stuff...especially when the software in question was not written by, and
is not maintained by, the vendor in question. Companies like Sun, IBM,
and others who are "embracing" Linux nowadays are doing so in order to
gain press. If I have a question regarding, say, GCC, I'd rather ask
the people who wrote it...rather than a clock-watching help desk chair
warmer at a large corporation who is trying to ride Linux' coattails to
greater media coverage.
I realize that this attitude isn't representative of how most
companies work...but then, a lot of companies are failing, and still
others are pouring good money after bad on failed IT projects because of
outmoded beliefs that it takes a company in a big glass building to
provide "support" for a piece of software...when said support is being
relied upon as a crutch so said company doesn't need to hire competent
sysadmins in the first place. Anyone who can't handle
"./configure;make;make install" has absolutely no business with root
access in the first place.
End rant. :)
-Dave
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