[pca] Solaris 9 transitioning to Extended Support

[Chuck Floyd]

The rather large telecommunications company I work for bought a year's worth of it. I'm not convinced it solved many problems. 

- Chuck Floyd

On Oct 19, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Solaris 9 will transition to "Vintage" Support at the end of October. This means that any Solaris 9 patches (or patch revisions) released from Nov 1st onwards will require "Vintage" support level. Details on Gerry Haskins' blog:
> 
>  http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_9_transitioning_to_extended
> 
> BTW - when that happened with Solaris 8, I heard that "Vintage" support is very expensive. Did anybody ever buy and use that?
> 
> Martin.
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