[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[Torrey McMahon]

James Lee wrote:
> On 19/09/07, 20:50:51, Torrey McMahon <tmcmahon2 at yahoo.com> wrote regarding 
> Re: [csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?:
>
>   
>> 2 - Come up with the charter statement that details if/when blastwave
>> stops providing support for older OS. I've never seen this in writing
>> and it would come in quite handy. People would know when support starts
>> and ends giving them enough time to migrate. The fact that we're
>> discussing this is the major headache not when we cut S8 or S9 support.
>>     
>
> Great idea, as with most great ideas this has been done, obviously not
> publicly enough.  The statement was that Blastwave would support S8
> as long as Sun did (I'm not sure what those dates are though).
>   

Which date? Last ship date? EOL? EOSL?

http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml