[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[James Dickens]

On 9/16/07, Ihsan Dogan <ihsan at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> on 14.09.2007 23:41 Ben Taylor said the following:
>
> > I, for one, do not understand why blastwave insists on supporting a
> > 7 year old operating system as it's base.  the amount of bad press
> > blastwave gets for it's bloat (especially on solaris 9, 10 and nevada
> > based systems) out weighs it's usefulness to the marginal fringe who
> > insist on staying on Solaris 8.  Solaris 8 is dead for intensive
> purposes.
> > Yeah, there are folks running Win 3.1 and Win 95 and Win98 and Solaris
> > 2.5.1, 2.6 and 7.  so what.
>
> It's true that nobody is installing Solaris 8 anymore, but it's still
> widely used and they are not going to be replaced that quickly. I don't
> see any reason, why we should drop the support for Solaris 8


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...

James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com




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