At 12:34 AM 4/1/2006 +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote:

Uhm, may I ask *why* you'd want an off-the-shelf product instead of
your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly? What
problem are you trying to solve?

I can't speak for the original poster, but I've worked for shops that
preferred not to depend on locally written software. That way, staff
turnover wasn't nearly as much an issue; whoever was the SysAdmin of
the month merely needed to know what vendors to call if something
started acting up.

Besides, commercial software *must* be better than any locally
written code, right? (Don't answer that; that was thinly disguised
sarcasm, tinged with disgust.)

Speaking only for myself,
Nick