If you are new to Open Solaris and trying to deploy webtier technologies like Apache2, PHP/Ruby with PostgreSQL/MySQL then you might find the file layout of these components to be very different from what you would find on Linux or Windows. So, do check out File Layout section within 'Getting Started Guide' to get a quick walk through of the current file layout of these components.
Now, if you wonder as to why we included the version number of these components and not simply bundle these binaries under /usr/bin as is the case on Linux then here is the motivation - Most of the open source web tier technologies are in active development and these components provide no guaranteed compatibility from one release over the other. Hence, you will notice that the file layout include the version number of these components so as to allow co-existence of multiple versions, if deemed necessary.
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