Friday, January 25, 2013

Legacy & Future

So everybody knows the world didn't end in 2012 according to the Gregorian Calendar.
Life goes on and Solaris can keep on its evolution which we struggle to follow.
I've been running Solaris 11 codebase for around 2 years by now.
For me it all started with Solaris 10 U8 and soon 11 Express.
Hopefully for me, on earlier versions things were a bit harder.

My point is that on this new year I'll retire Solaris 10 and all its glory.
I pay tribute to Solaris 10 but from now on I'll focus on Solaris 11.
The reasons may be obvious:
 
  • Everything in Solaris 11 is better;
  • Well-behaved applications are well supported;
  • Despite the long term Solaris 10 support, the last update is U11;
  • Despite IP issues for Oracle running on Intel it doesn't seem to be concerning.