[rescue] Whither Solaris 10
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Tue Apr 28 12:16:54 CDT 2015
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 04/28/2015 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> Solaris 10 went GA/was released in 2005. A decade later it is still
>> being actively supported by Oracle, and I believe that someone posted an
>> EOL of 2018.
>>
>> My only question is will Solaris 10 win any awards for the longest
>> actively supported version of an operating system?
>>
>> Has any other version been stuck on on version anywhere as long as
>> Solaris 10 without the owning company going TU?
>
> If I'm interpreting you correctly...Solaris 10 was succeeded by
> Solaris 11 a long time ago, but a lot of people stayed with Solaris 10
> for various reasons. Just like a lot of people stayed with 9, 8..
>
> -Dave
Just like some of us were dragged, kicking and screaming, from SunOS to
Solaris. :-)
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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