RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ2 - Alternatives, Secure admin UI, Porting special sauce to Slackware

[bb2 <bb2@xxxxxxxx>]

>Frankly, I feel insulted by Cobalt.  I know issues arrise, but I have
>trusted a corporation to provide me with a secure, publically accessible
>web, email, and ftp server.  I'm finding that the system is far beyond
>proprietary in design, insecure, nonextensible, and buggy.

Just remember, you get what you pay for.  In the case of Cobalt's products,
that's really QUITE a lot.  The more sophistication, the slicker the GUI,
the more potential gotchas.  I think on the whole, Cobalt has developed a
highly reliable, very easy to use interface to facilitate easy forms based
site administration. Give Cobalt a chance, they'll patch it.

It won't be the last hole, by the way, you can be sure.  Those of us who've
run Sun servers over the years know you can also have the pleasure of paying
considerably more for a truly proprietary platform just to face the same
pitfalls.  Such security holes come with the territory...

Brett Barron
Kaleidoscope