[pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3

[BABAULT.Daniel]

As our security officers says "All patches must be applied, no unaplied patch could be 90 days oldest ...) we baught an "extended support" for Solaris Studio, necessary to download patches, cost is 300 €ur for 1 machine by year.

Daniel 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de Andy Fiddaman
Envoyé : vendredi 14 février 2014 12:14
À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Objet : Re: [pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3


On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Dennis Clarke wrote:

; Merely a polite question to anyone out there that still has Solaris ; systems doing compile work AND you are still using Oracle Solaris Studio ; 12 or 12.3 releases.
;
; Has anyone bothered to spend the money for the separate support on ; the compiler tools and was it worth the expense as near as you can ; tell?

One of my customers bought this support specifically to obtain patches to add T5 processor support. The whole process was a pain but they did eventually get access to the patches. It's a 'Named User+' product which further complicated the issue.

Andy