 sigh
It's not a question of "not doing Zimbra on Solaris". I've spent a lot of time porting it already, a few months ago. I got all of third party ported and had to put it aside at the point of looking at the application itself (undoubtedly a smaller challenge). I have no objections to running a stable release on an unsupported O/S. But I see no point in getting involved in application issues (beta) in addition to platform issues.
At the time I did that work, the build system and documentation was half cooked. I hope it's improved.
(Porting third party essentially duplicates the effort of packagers - it's extra effort on all platforms, not just Solaris... IMHO it would be better if Z relied on standard packages for as much as possible.)
That said, I think running Zimbra is probably the best solution for my company, and if we run it on any O/S, it will be Solaris 10.
There is no way forward at the moment, even if I wanted to start over, without sensible access to Z source. |