Amazing uptime...

On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:45 AM, R SMALLWOOD <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote: Don't get me started. Look at the upgrade chain for commercial Solaris these days. What you can/can't run Solaris 10 on, Solaris 11 on, etc. But that's another thread all on its own. I'm an ex-HP/ArcSight guy who now does ArcSight consulting with a small firm, and we have a lot of great customers. That said, some of those customers are using older (3-5 years old) appliance hardware which was sold by ArcSight (pre-HP.) The hardware works fine and is sized appropriately for their needs, but HP won't support the latest software upgrades on it, and those software upgrades are required to avoid a nasty XSS bug. So I can't upgrade a keep a customer's system secure because they aren't running the most recent ($$$) hardware. It doesn't help that the original hardware ArcSight used for their appliances was Dell-based, and now being owned by HP it's kind of a black eye for HP to keep supporting Dell-based HW. Meanwhile I'm trying to be a good partner/VAR/trusted advisor to my customers, but the vendor has totally put the squeeze on me. Yes, you really don't need new hardware for your environment due to capacity issues, but you do if you want to ensure the product you use for security monitoring is secure, you need to fork out $50k+.