![]() As are the respective packaging formats.īitrock’s flexibility, however, does not come without a price. Other similarly targeted efforts include the pre-tested and certified stacks sold by Sourcelabs and SpikeSource, or the virtual appliances championed by VMWare and partners.īy way of comparison, Bitrock lacks the central repository GUI common to distributions like Ubuntu and the comprehensiveness of Debian’s 25K+ packages, but it’s cross-platform while the package management approaches within Linux remain not only operating system specific (with rare exceptions like Nexenta) but distribution specific. Even better, the Linux support is not limited to the dominant commercial distributions, in Red Hat and SuSE, but is inclusive of Debian, Ubuntu and other commercial and non-commercial variants.īitrock has, in other words, replicated a portion of the basic package management functionality and dependency handling common to Linux but absent from OS X and Windows. Both dominant commercial distributions, Solaris and Linux. Examples of their application stacks can be found here.Īs an aside, when I say cross-platform, I don’t mean Adobe AIR-style “sure we’re cross-platform – you know, Mac and Windows,” but rather truly cross-platform. The basic value proposition, then, to an ISV is that Bitrock can package your application such that it’s suitable for cross-platform deployment, thus freeing application vendors from the burden of delivering multiple builds themselves. ![]() One that’s cross-platform (Linux, Microsoft, OS X, and apparently Solaris as well) no less.įor those of you that have followed my Quixotic attempts to drum up interest in a network application with the ability to refine and evolve the application installation and management experience, Bitrock is worth a look as it provides several of the fundamental pieces (package management, monitoring, etc) one would need to construct such an offering. What I heard was something at once broader in scope and more compelling: a legitimate network enabled application installation, management and monitoring story. What I expected based on the initial introduction was a reasonably interesting packaging story, but candidly, little more. Thanks to old friend Stephe Walli, I had the pleasure of meeting with Bitrock CEO Erica Brescia bright and not too early (it was the day after our Bday party, after all) last Thursday morning.
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