Michael Schuster wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:06:15 -0500 >> Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote: >> >>> That said, I can see how frustrating it would be to actually stumble >>> onto one of those problems, and not be able to get the patch (until >>> it has been field tested more and actually makes it's way into the >>> recommended cluster) at all. >> You're right about you Microsoft story I guess. I can't be sure to get >> all patches (although they like me to believe I do;-) >> >> But I would pay for a patch-only contract though in cases as mentioned >> above. The way it is now, all you get are the security patches (and >> -SOME- recommended ones, mostly because they are deps in a way). I feel >> patches should be available to an Operating System. Even if the OS >> itself is free. But to a reasonable price. >> >> Just my 2 ?t > > this is a business issue - and a Solaris 10 one, at that. I'm not arguing > about the validity of your claim, but I'm fairly certain there are better > places to address this to than here ;-) (and, even if I work for Sun, I > can't tell you what they are without some research. I'd start with > www.sun.com ...)
I think this is where you should be able to find some contact: http://www.sun.com/service/serviceplans/index.jsp > regards > Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
