-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 14:35, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > On 02/22/10 09:19, Henrik Johansen wrote: >> On 02/22/10 02:33 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >>> On 02/22/10 06:12, Henrik Johansen wrote: >>>> Well - once thing that makes me feel a bit uncomfortable is the fact >>>> that you no longer can buy OpenSolaris Support subscriptions. >>>> >>>> Almost every trace of it has vanished from the Sun/Oracle website and a >>>> quick call to our local Sun office confirmed that they apparently no >>>> longer sell them. >>> >>> I was actually very startled to see that since we're using it in >>> production here. After digging through the web for hours, I found that >>> OpenSolaris support is now included in Solaris support. This is a win >>> for us because we never know if a particular box, especially a dev box, >>> is going to remain Solaris or OpenSolaris for the duration of a support >>> purchase and now we're free to mix and mingle. If you refer to the >>> Solaris support web page (png attached if the mailing list allows), >>> you'll see that OpenSolaris is now officially part of the deal and is no >>> longer being treated as a second class support offering. >> >> That would be *very* nice indeed. I have checked the URL in your >> screenshot but I am getting a different result (png attached). >> >> Ohwell - I'll just have to wait and see. > > Confirmed your finding Henrik. This is a showstopper for us as the > higherups are already quite leery of Sun/Oracle and the future of > Solaris. I'm calling Oracle to see if I can get some answers. The SUSE > folks recently took a big chunk of our UNIX business here and > OpenSolaris was my main tool in battling that. For us, the loss of > OpenSolaris and its support likely indicates the end of Solaris altogether.
Look at http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_opensolaris.html This page is stating that OpenSolaris is supported for up to 5 years. - -- Al Slater -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuCmFcACgkQz4fTOFL/EDbiBwCcCxi0PevP1Kib/e2LmcslYFSZ m/cAoIGphDXQ/r520qa28KNz2q0Dimu6 =8xN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
