[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.  :-)


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