> In many organizations this means you can develop on any OS/Platform you wish, and then deploy on whatever OS/Platform the ops team is currently running. That

> In many organizations this means you can develop on any OS/Platform you wish, and then deploy on whatever OS/Platform the ops team is currently running. That's true of dynamic linking as well. Static linking just saves you the trouble of having to install the library dependencies on the server. But for ops that's a pretty tiny, if not non-existent gain. So I don't buy it. When deploying to users it's a huge gain, so I do get that that for things like cli utils.