John Plocher wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>> I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and
>>> replacing them with external commands.
>
>
> Since Sun's management seems to have RIF'd the entire team that used
> to maintain those old Solaris commands, it seems clear that *they* no
> longer have the same commitment to them as they used to. In that
> case, anything that moves towards a codebase that /is/ actively
> supported by people who are experts in the field is rather to be
> desired, don't you think?
>
> -John
Point taken, but to be fair Sun does still support these commands, and
there are Sun engineers responsible for maintaining them. Just not as
many as before.
Scott
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