Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Oracle Shuts Older Servers Out of Solaris 11

Posted by Soulskill on from the hope-you're-done-with-them-'cause-we-sure-are dept.

PCM2 writes "The Register is reporting that Oracle has decided not to allow Solaris 11 to install on older Sparc hardware, including UltraSparc-I, UltraSparc-II, UltraSparc-IIe, UltraSparc-III, UltraSparc-III+, UltraSparc-IIIi, UltraSparc-IV, and UltraSparc-IV+ processors. The Solaris 11 Express development version released in November did not have this restriction, which suggests that the OS would likely run on these models. Unfortunately, the installer won't. All generations of Sparc T series processors and Sparc Enterprise M machines will be able to install and run Solaris 11, however."

2 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sounds like good news by drolli · · Score: 4, Informative

    The University i studied at bought a (As far as remember, its the only system matching the spec which i remember) Ultra Enterprise 4000 in around 1996 or 1997.

    Please direct your view to:

    http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-os-337182.pdf

    So the regular supported time would have been 14 years and the extended supported time would have been longer.

  2. And Then There's IBM: They Get IT by BBCWatcher · · Score: 5, Informative

    Meanwhile, IBM's newest AIX 7 supports systems all the way back to POWER4 -- systems which were introduced a decade ago. Moreover, IBM just lengthened the standard priced support periods for AIX 6 and AIX 7. And IBM introduced support for AIX 5 running in AIX 7 PowerVM.