[geeks] fwd: OpenSolaris is Dead. Long Live Solaris 11 Express

[Brian Dunbar]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Geoffrey Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote:
> On 8/17/10 9:31 AM, "Brian Dunbar" <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> i hadn't gotten around to learning the ins-and-outs of s10, and now i'm
>>> starting to think why bother...
>>
>> Continued employment?
>>
>> Solaris at $work isn't going away real soon - it's gonna be around for
>> a long while.
>
>
> I work at one of the largest unix shops in the industry we are in (sorry,
> can't get more specific)  I can tell you with Oracle and their latest
> support cost restructuring, it looks like it will no longer cost effective
> to continue using solaris on sparc.
>
> Our support costs are currently going up enough that with the service
> contracts on software and hardware we could replace up to 25 or 30% of our
> hardware with brand new each year if we weren't carrying support contracts
> beyond the 1-year that is purchased with the hardware.
>

Hunh - I have not been paying attention to that side of things.

What could be the reason for Oracle to drive users away from solaris on
sparc?



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Brian Dunbar
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