[pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13

[Jeremy Loukinas]

Solaris 11 is a much better alternative for a number of reasons. I work for
a large organization that has 1000's of Redhat / Suse linux servers.
Managing them is a mess, yes they are easier to patch yum update etc.. but
with Solaris 11 you have pkg update? It couldn't be easier.

Suse and redhat just got finished racking us over the coals for our "free"
linux to the tune of about $500,000.

The trick with Linux is you have no rollback capability if your patches go
to shit like you have with solaris live upgrade.

Linux is junk meant for running startup dot coms in someone's basement.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Glen Gunselman <ggunselm at emporia.edu>wrote:

> It is my understanding that Red Hat is not as generous as they once were.
>
> I will be surprised if I use Solaris 11 in any significant way.  It looks
> like we are moving in an x86/Linux/VMware direction.
>
> Have you looked at OEL/OVM? (very off topic - but it is Friday :) )
>
> Have a good weekend,
> GlenG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:
> pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:22 AM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13
>
> 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".
>
> Martin.
>
>
>
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