Martin Bochnig wrote: > Ken Mandelberg wrote: >> We have a student computer lab full of >> SB2500/XVR600s. This was a very standard >> configuration. The USIII cpu's in these workstations >> are not substantially behind the current Sparc >> workstation offerings. > > But you and I did get what we had been paying for (Solaris8 and Xsun), > actually way more than that (Solaris10!!!).
Right - and you'll be able to run a fully supported Solaris 10 on them for years to come. Just look at the Solaris lifecycle: http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml Solaris 8, released in 2000, supported until 2012 - if Solaris 10 follows a similar model, you'll have full support on those machines until at least 2015 - is that really so short a period that you'll be unhappy? You may not be getting the newest features added for them now, 5 years after release, but they won't stop doing everything you already did on them. But when management is deciding what will be supported in the next release of Solaris, they also have to look at that and consider not just which hardware is viable to support in 2008 or 2010, but in 2018 or 2020. [And before someone uses google to pull out this as a promise of Sun support of something in 2020 - the above dates are just examples! No one knows for sure yet when Solaris 10 will hit end of support or when the next release of Solaris will come out.] -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
