[vishnu]

I just noticed Oracle released Solaris 11.4 last week. I have no idea what the holdup on Solaris 12 is, most of the Solaris developers have been using it for years. Link:

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/an...-114-sru42

[Raion]

Solaris 12 was canceled by ORACLE AFAIK.

[vishnu]

Solaris 12 was canceled by ORACLE AFAIK.

Not to mention I have to correct myself, this release is actually update number 42 to Solaris 11.4, I think what they might be doing is backporting Solaris 12 features into the Solaris 11 updates...

[Shiunbird]

Support contracts must be worth millions, otherwise they'd have dropped it already.

I'd love to see Oracle's financials - I'd bet the majority of the income is made of support contracts for legacy databases and legacy Solaris deployments.
#innovation

[vishnu]

According to the Oracle website, if you buy their "premier support" package they'll cover Solaris 11.4 until November 2031. I have no idea how much premier support costs but if they do it the way SGI did they look at your company's infodata, use that to guess how much you'd be willing to pay, and then offer you a quote based on their guess. The highest level of support from SGI promised to have a field service engineer on your premises within 24 hours, anywhere in the world. As far as I know HP is still honoring those contracts...

[adso]

I think what they might be doing is backporting Solaris 12 features into the Solaris 11 updates...

Solaris 12 was actually released as Solaris 11.4. That's the reason why Solaris 11.4 dropped support of so many older systems. Solaris 11.4 is now getting brand new features, they were not present in Solaris 12 beta versions available to some customers.
It appears that Oracle decided to bump up the minor version rather than increasing the major one because the most of 3rd party software supports / is certified with "Oracle Solaris 11" and hence would have been re-certified.

[Shiunbird]

According to the Oracle website, if you buy their "premier support" package they'll cover Solaris 11.4 until November 2031. I have no idea how much premier support costs but if they do it the way SGI did they look at your company's infodata, use that to guess how much you'd be willing to pay, and then offer you a quote based on their guess. The highest level of support from SGI promised to have a field service engineer on your premises within 24 hours, anywhere in the world. As far as I know HP is still honoring those contracts...

Are there still active production IRIX environments???????

[Raion]

There are. An oceanography company has called me 6 times over the years when they need parts for an O2k replaced.

And no, HPE ended all support in 2013. The only support I've seen is very expensive and bespoke for the few us government installations using it and rapidly phasing it out.

[Shiunbird]

Woa.

They could give us 64 bit time_t. Ha? =))))
I kid. I kid.

[Raion]

Worst case I'll issue a patch to libcs if we are still here in 2030s to change it to 32-bit unsigned. That would be easily patchable in programs too, literally just a hex editor.