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

[Laurent Blume]

Le 2014/02/18 09:47 +0100, Dennis Clarke a écrit:
> 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?

You need support to get patches, and the compilers our-of-the-box have 
*a lot* of bugs, So practically, if you want to legally produce reliable 
binaries, you need support.

> Not sure why Oracle separated out the compilers from the normal support
> contracts. Other than to get an additional 0.01% revenue from the one
> person in 10,000 that still has these things running.

Not sure what you mean here. Compiler support has been separate from OS 
support since before I starting dabbling with Solaris, and that was more 
than 15 years ago. Sun's policy (and naming) kept changing, so I'm not 
sure how Oracle is to blame for the mess Sun made.
For sure, Oracle doesn't seem any more intent on winning hearts and 
minds on the product.

Laurent