[pca] [OT] OpenSolaris / IPS support & patching

[Jones, Dave]

Hi Team.

This is a bit off-topic but I have a few questions about OpenSolaris as
it regards to to support & patching.
I thought someone on the list (maybe even Don) might know the answers.

1) Do the Sun support subscriptions for OpenSolaris offer the same
levels and types of support as they do for Solaris?
2) Is anyone on the list running OpenSolaris in th place of Solaris on
Test/Dev/Prod?  If so what are your experiences?
3) Does IPS/OpenSolaris/Sun still "require" you perform patch installs
in Single User mode on OpenSolaris?

We are strongly considering migrating off of Sun if we cannot get out of
the 8 - 12 hour patch windows we currently need to patch some of our
systems.
Live Upgrade is not an option because of several factors in our
environment, including excapsulated root disks with VxVM and several
containers per host.
We cannot justify staying on Solaris under these conditions when Linux
allows us to patch the whole box in minutes while still at run level 3.
In fact, with Ksplice we do not even need to reboot to change kernels in
Linux anymore.
If OpenSolaris and IPS does meets our needs then we can move in that
direction.

Thanks,
Dave

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