[csw-maintainers] Completely drop Solaris8?

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-03-16 18:17, Peter FELECAN wrote:
>
> I'm even for dropping Solaris 9 (who gives a Greek drachma on so old
> versions?)

Well, there still are a lot of people running Solaris 9.
Its not uncommon that companies doesn't upgrade OS during the lifetime 
of the HW.
And even though the "financial liftime" (for accounting purposes) here 
in Sweden is 3 years, many use their systems longer than that.
Also many times you can't use the latest release for some reason 
(proprietory software not supported on newer OS yet) so even though at 
install time you had something newer to choose from, you got something 
older.
And then you have the usual "hmm, let someone else be the guinea pig and 
discover all the bugs in either SW or OS or a combo" which makes people 
wait a while until they start using the latest.

If you put all of that together, I know of a lot of companies having 
systems with Solaris 9 with varying reasons why they run Solaris 9 and 
not 10. Most of those systems are being planned to be replaced, but I 
would say that its not until late next year they will have replaced most 
of them.

( One customer of mine shut down their last E450 with Solaris 2.6 last 
year... )


But I would say that in general there should not be any reason for us 
supporting anything but releases in GA or "Retired Phase 1" and Solaris 
9 will end up in "Retired Phase 2" in october 2011.