[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[Ben Taylor]

Dennis Clarke wrote:

>>James Dickens wrote:
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>>>On 9/16/07, *Ihsan Dogan* <ihsan at blastwave.org
>>><mailto: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...
>>>      
>>>
>>You can't even put Solaris 8 on a new large server.  Who are you kidding?
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>
>  I can install Solaris 8 into a V490 just fine.
>  
>
You can't buy a new V490 that runs Solaris 8.