[rescue] Whither Solaris 10

[Andrew Jones]

On 04/28/2015 05:30 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
> And FWIW they were consumed - or hollowed out and worn like a flesh
> costume - by Rackable in 2009.

It's worth noting the Rackable deal was executed after SGI's *second* 
bankruptcy.  They entered chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2006 and then did it 
again in 2009.

>
> More to the point - I think? - the last IRIX release (6.5.30 in 2006)
> was only something like eight years after the initial release of 6.5
> (1998). If you want to compare it to the release of IRIX 6.0 that was
> 1994, but the 6.x IRIX releases weren't clear major/minor release
> progressions as you might expect from the numbering scheme.
>

6.5.30 came out the same year as the very final hardware sales for IRIX. 
  It's hardly surprising that they stopped updating the install media 
after they stopped selling hardware.

I know they were still issuing patches as late as 2012, and there were 
support contracts that ran through 12/31/2013.