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Oracle Shuts Older Servers Out of Solaris 11
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."
Because it will force companies to re-evaluate their position with Oracle, why Oracle is even relevant in today's market is still a mystery
We ARE talking servers from 2005-2007 here. Servers unlikely and unsuitable for production or any other professional use anyway.
Also, no end-of-support date for Solaris 10 has even been published yet.
Oracle is relevant since it still provides some advantages over the competition, no mystery there. However, I know what you mean. :-)
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Servers from 2005 to 2007 are unsuitable for production?
The usual life cycle for a server may be slightly longer than 4 years. When i worked in the computing center there were single solaris machines which had specific tasks which were about 10 years old, even the solaris terminal/web servers were in use for 6-8 years.
For a serious (not in terms of the size) database server i would hope that its possible to operate it for longer (but obvious that does not mean you need a new OS, if the old one is still patched).