[pca] Sunsolve is dead, long live to sunsolve...

[Ben Taylor]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Ron Halstead <rdhalstead at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is a great idea and tool. Please make it available to all
> sysadmins who care to use it (if they are smart).
>
> One suggestion: in the Synopsis column, use left justification instead of
> center justification, its easier on the eyes when scanning down the column.
>
> Well done.
>
> Ron Halstead
>
> On 05/11/11 01:45 AM, Gouverneur Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Dear sysadmins,
>>
>> Days ago, I was wondering how I could ease my daily job dealing with
>> patching, bugs,
>> problem finding with Solaris. My missing tool was something to quickly
>> find and correlate
>> information. I didn't wanted to do my daily TLP/PCA ->  Oracle MOS ->
>>  Readme files, ... anymore.
>>
>> I've then collected up some informations about patches, bugids and
>> inter-dependancies between them,
>> I've managed to gather a lot of information about that and I just begun to
>> code some tools to
>> find/treat information.
>>
>> This is why I end up here. My dilemn is, should I keep theses tools and
>> information for myself,
>> or could I make other sysadmin and people around there happier with them ?
>>
>> First of all, you could see what my current work consist of here:
>> http://sunsolve.espix.org
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>>  * Will Oracle accept this kind of website ?
>>  * If yes, should the name of the website changed ?
>>     (I'm not attached to it, just the first thing that came to head)
>>  * If no, which information on the website are "too much" ?
>>
>> The goal of this (maybe) future website would be to help sysadmin out
>> there, then, indirectly, to help
>> oracle satisfying customers...
>>
>> On another hands, on the technical part, I've also some questions:
>>
>>  * Have you got any usage of such website ?
>>  * Have you got any suggestion of a new tool or something that you want to
>> see there ?
>>
>>  * Anything to say?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for reading, I'm waiting for your feedbacks ;-)

This surely has more potential than Oracle's search tool, which
I already gave up on.