On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not >> wait until 2017 for something else? > > Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. > Turning it down is not an option. Did it do that under 5.x, or did you ever have it in production? > And it *does* work on some of the servers, there's just a few that have > issues, and in some cases, I have no clue why, as they're similar or the > same. The bug reports I see relate to kernel versions. >>> I hear a couple years ago, $10? $19.99?, but my manage says he'd like to >>> get out of the business of making video surveillance work, when there's >>> off-the-shelf stuff out there. >>> >>> And we do have some budget for things that need to be done, and security >>> is required (and if we do it, it's a lot less than other options...). >> >> Seems like the sort of thing that would have cross platform java software. > > Just using std. repos.... Seems like you have exhausted that already, though. And java apps tend to be fairly self-contained and easy to manage separately - since linux distros have been so weird about supporting it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com