What is the oldest version of Solaris that Sun will still support?

I am working within a group that is trying to define recommended
standards for Operating Systems that our organization will allow to be
deployed. We would like to list the lowest version of Solaris for
which Sun is actively providing current patches, updates and support.

We will probably list Solaris 10 as the standard version to choose and
Solaris 9 as a declining version and Solaris X and below, where X is
unknown (maybe 8), as a version to discontinue use of.

What are your recommendations?

On Thu, 01 May 2008 08:50:21 -0700, Brett wrote:

> What is the oldest version of Solaris that Sun will still support?

http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/sola...eol_5.2005.xml

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Brett wrote:

> What is the oldest version of Solaris that Sun will still support?

RIght now, Solaris 8. But that support will be going away next March.

> We will probably list Solaris 10 as the standard version to choose and

That is a very wise decision. I can't think why anyone would standardise
on something older.

> What are your recommendations?

I would recommend that Solaris 10 be your primary supported platform.
Nevada is even better, but it's supportability in a corporate environment
might be a bit awkward.

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On 2008-05-02 15:30:18 +0100, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> said:

> I would recommend that Solaris 10 be your primary supported platform.
> Nevada is even better, but it's supportability in a corporate environment
> might be a bit awkward.

Don't the SX[CD]E licenses even state that they must *not* be used in
production environments? That'd certainly make it awkward to support :-)

Cheers,

Chris

On 2008-05-02, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:

> I would recommend that Solaris 10 be your primary supported platform.
> Nevada is even better, but it's supportability in a corporate environment
> might be a bit awkward.

Lack of patches might be a problem. I can't see many production sites wanting
to liveupgrade the entire release every time a bug needs fixin'.


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On 2008-05-14 17:14:10 +0100, Andre van Eyssen
<nntempt@nospam.purplecow.org> said:

> On 2008-05-02, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
>
>> I would recommend that Solaris 10 be your primary supported platform.
>> Nevada is even better, but it's supportability in a corporate environment
>> might be a bit awkward.
>
> Lack of patches might be a problem. I can't see many production sites wanting
> to liveupgrade the entire release every time a bug needs fixin'.

I'm pretty certain the Solaris Express licenses don't permit their use
in a production environment.

How does OpenSolaris (nee Indiana) get upgraded? I saw the "entire"
meta-package got updated earlier this week - was that it, and if it was
how does one roll back if necessary?

Cheers,

Chris

In article <690j2vF2u3irtU1@mid.individual.net>,
Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
>I'm pretty certain the Solaris Express licenses don't permit their use
>in a production environment.

I don't have a EULA for the now EOL'd Solaris Express Developer Edition
but the SXCE b87 EULA is online:
<URL:https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=Sol-Express_b87-SEG-DVD-x86-SP-G-B@CDS-CDS_SMI>
<URL:https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewLicense-Start;pgid=01RgaHqkAdxSR0EUQncsoQ3D0000q9bWQEiF;si d=jDsPkAsCqBoPkEMp3TVHleSrWDnvp8ZH2dnAURYcQ4F6GQ== ?LicenseUUID=jPhIBe.pANQAAAEZ70cukFXD&ProductUUID= EZ9IBe.pegoAAAEZsE4ukVTc>
| 2.0 LIMITED LICENSE
| Sun grants You a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to
| internally reproduce and use Software solely for purpose of evaluation
| in a test environment. Software shall not be used in a production
| environment.

John
groenveld@acm.org

On 2008-05-14 22:08:48 +0100, groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) said:

> In article <690j2vF2u3irtU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote:
>> I'm pretty certain the Solaris Express licenses don't permit their use
>> in a production environment.
>
> I don't have a EULA for the now EOL'd Solaris Express Developer Edition
> but the SXCE b87 EULA is online:
> <URL:https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=Sol-Express_b87-SEG-DVD-x86-SP-G-B@CDS-CDS_SMI>
<URL:https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewLicense-Start;pgid=01RgaHqkAdxSR0EUQncsoQ3D0000q9bWQEiF;si d=jDsPkAsCqBoPkEMp3TVHleSrWDnvp8ZH2dnAURYcQ4F6GQ== ?LicenseUUID=jPhIBe.pANQAAAEZ70cukFXD&ProductUUID= EZ9IBe.pegoAAAEZsE4ukVTc>
|
>
> 2.0 LIMITED LICENSE
> | Sun grants You a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to
> | internally reproduce and use Software solely for purpose of evaluation
> | in a test environment. Software shall not be used in a production
> | environment.

Thanks John, my google skills were too weak :-(

Cheers,

Chris