On 11/16/10 07:46 PM, Sean M. Brannon wrote:
Thank you for the answers guys. Not that I'm happy about their content. :-( OpenSolaris and the future Solaris 11 had me interested in Solaris as a server platform again. Even though Oracle had bought it, and quashed OpenSolaris, I still felt Solaris could prove itself able to provide features that would be compelling enough to move away from Linux for certain workloads.
It still does, whether you consider they justify the cost of support only you can say.
Alas, it isn't to be I'm afraid. My work environment precludes the attachment to our network of any OS that could not be patched should security vulnerabilities arise.
So you wouldn't have been able to attach an OpenSolaris system either.
Even on test machines. Much of the US Federal gov't has the same requirements; whether or not all admins adhere to the rules is another question. In any case, I'm not going to buy a support agreement in order to put up a test environment. And I'm not sure I want to deal with a vendor that won't provide patches for test machines. It doesn't speak well of the corporate culture and their attitude toward customers. Hell, even Microsoft provides updates and security patches with their 120-day evals.
I can't argue with that. One would think customer feedback from an express program would be worth the cost of providing patched and updates.
-- Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
