3 Apr
2013
3 Apr
'13
2:08 a.m.
Its funny you should mention Solaris. In addition to my main DEC collection I have a few
Sun systems including a nice E3000 server.
I have a kosher original SUN copy of? Solaris 9 .
You can get Solaris 10 but its on DVD iso images and the E3000 only has a CD and I would
need? a SCSI DVD to load it.?
?
Oracle have now made Oracle Linux (PC version) downloadable for free.
I did it and it works just fine.
?
There's a promise of Oracle Linux for Sparc and that would really bring the SUN
systems to life.
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From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 17:13
Subject: Re: Amazing uptime...
On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:45 AM, R SMALLWOOD <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Does the phrase "planned obsolescence" mean
anything to anybody?
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+.