<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:John.B.Taylor@sun.com">John.B.Taylor@sun.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
James Lee wrote:<br><br>>On 9/12/07, 6:35:06 AM, Anil Gulecha <<a href="mailto:anil.verve@gmail.com">anil.verve@gmail.com</a>> wrote regarding<br>>[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?:<br>><br>><br>
><br>>>I was wondering why blastwave supports solaris 8 & above, and not 10<br>>>and above?<br>>><br>>></blockquote><div><br><br>Solaris 8 is not dead, i work for a very large corporation, and my team maintains 140 servers, 130 of which are still running Solaris 8, with no plans to migrate them off of it, even though Sun is threatening to remove support in a year or two.
<br><br>1/2 of those servers are running production apps, and the word "production" generates its own FUD all on its own, the developers and even sysadmin are afraid to move on. Even though Sun swears nothing will break, the stability of the API/ABI is what allows blastwave to do what it does but no one is moving.
<br><br>In fact most people would be hard pressed to find a reason what compiling on Solaris 10 gives the user. I'm a huge fan of Solaris 10 and above, but really there isn't much reason to move on. Zones, ZFS, DTrace (well for the most part, and I will cover that next), really dont change the API/ABI so no need to migrate. Just ship with a SMF manifest and method that only gets installed on Solaris 10 and later.
<br><br>Even with DTrace there are only a hand full of apps currently that even benefit from being built on Solaris 10, the ones that register there own probes perl, mozilla, and some other scripting languages and most likely those are being added to Solaris so we wont have to deal with them and maybe in a year or two the changes will be mainstream and we can build those on a Solaris 10 box.
<br><br>James Dickens<br><a href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com">uadmin.blogspot.com</a><br><br><br><br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>>Because people including myself have Solaris 8 systems.<br>><br>><br>you like working on really slow systems?<br><br>>>Perhaps I'm uneducated as to the number of actual users of<br>>>8 & 9.
<br>>><br>>><br>><br>>As a Solaris user yourself I hope you appreciate the efforts Blastwave<br>>makes to support minority computer users.<br>><br>><br>I, for one, do not understand why blastwave insists on supporting a
<br>7 year old operating system as it's base. the amount of bad press<br>blastwave gets for it's bloat (especially on solaris 9, 10 and nevada<br>based systems) out weighs it's usefulness to the marginal fringe who
<br>insist on staying on Solaris 8. Solaris 8 is dead for intensive purposes.<br>Yeah, there are folks running Win 3.1 and Win 95 and Win98 and Solaris<br>2.5.1, 2.6 and 7. so what.<br><br>No only that, but the amount of work required to make it all work on a
<br>dead OS when Solaris 10 is really a premeire OS, is just beyond me,<br>not to mention we are coming up on 3 years of Solaris 10 being released.<br><br>I really hope Gazelle will find it's legs.<br><br><br><br><br>
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