[pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13

[francis picabia]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2013 17:48, schrieb francis picabia:
>
>> The strange thing is, I had this misplaced optimism that Ian Murdock
>> would fix Sun's wacky series of patch tools with something fast and
>> robust like dpkg or pkg-get.  I was totally wrong.
>
>
> To be fair, they kind of did that in Solaris 11 (IPS/pkg).
>
> Unfortunately I will never use that - for us, the next Solaris version after
> 10 will most probably not be 11, but "Red Hat".

Interesting.  I didn't know there was a change like this for Solaris 11.

I think we're going the same direction.  The maintenance contract
cost alone on Oracle is a deal breaker.  Sun used to give Universities
a good deal, but no longer.