On 09/24/2011 09:25 PM, Kumara Guru wrote: > I am not denying that. When designing apps around an open platform, I > expect costs be less than intimidating to comfortably go for > periodical planned upgrades.
Have you talked to any organization having a large deployment on Linux? I encourage you to do that before making assumptions around this topic. A open web platform does mean costs are going to be less but doesn't mean stability concerns are going to just evaporate. In fact, the point of enterprise releases in part is because large deployments don't necessarily want to follow the break neck pace of changes in the open source world. Virtualization makes some changes possible in terms of being not tied to a particular hardware but there are a very large number which don't trust virtualization enough with anything critical at this point. If you have custom applications around a platform, change is hard regardless of whether the underlying stack is open or not. Try migrating a custom PHP (4.x to 5.x) or Python (2.3 to 2.7) or MySQL (3.x to 4.x) and you will see how costly it can be. Heck, forget enterprises. Even hosting providers have problems of this sort. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
