Oracle Shuts Older Servers Out of Solaris 11

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:16PM 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."

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Re:Sounds like good news by zig007 · 2011-06-28 21:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

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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