<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ihsan Dogan</b> <<a href="mailto:ihsan@blastwave.org">ihsan@blastwave.org</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;">
on 14.09.2007 23:41 Ben Taylor said the following:<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>It's true that nobody is installing Solaris 8 anymore, but it's still<br>widely used and they are not going to be replaced that quickly. I don't<br>see any reason, why we should drop the support for Solaris 8
</blockquote><div><br>sorry lots of people are still installing Solaris 8, we are deploying 4 new database servers running oracle, all are running Solaris 8. On large servers I think the number of Solaris 8 instances are growing still...
<br><br>James Dickens<br><a href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com">uadmin.blogspot.com</a><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;">
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