-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gary Driggs wrote: > I'd be curious to learn how many admins feel this is an important feature since my server OS upgrade cycles tend to coincide with hardware upgrades & in that case it's more work to try to preserve an exact replica of the old system it's replacing -- except, perhaps, in the case of a physical to virtual conversion. It's hugely important in production server environments. SPARC kit in particular has a lot longer 'in service' life than x86 - 5 years is about average, longer for the higher end kit. Case in point - I am currently in the middle of de-commissioning an E10k. It's been live since they first came out, it's been running mission critical stuff, and Solaris has been upgraded multiple times. Being able to do that massively lowers the TCO of the installation, which is a big chunk of why SPARC (or any RISC solutio) can be cheaper to deploy than x86 despite the initially higher up-front costs.
> Again, workstations or lab/dev/QA systems are another matter depending on their level of importance (e.g. my production workstation lately lags behind by a year or two but my notebook gets a quarterly facelift at a minimum). 'workstation' means different things to different people. CAD or graphics workstations which - like servers - represent a higher initial investment. Or dev boxes which must remain in step with the servers where their solution is deployed. All of these have a lot longer service life and again need to be able to smoothly upgrade to newer OS versions. If the upgrade process is the same as on the server than that lowers the cost of the entire process, and boosts the TCO argument for the entire deployment. Solaris has won several large deployments I've been involved in (covering both desktop and servers) because of this. It's pretty key. Cheers, TOM - -- Tom Kranz Email: t...@gaeltd.com Skype: siliconbunny Mobile: 07779 149281 Phone/fax: 01344 773240 http://www.gaeltd.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkranz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkzT3BIACgkQCaTe3ZK74hlJ+wCdHhv+m/RQeDW6YwKaxwFjmoNH mgwAnj72lqxXam2MderQkHcXZnRkHY+y =SLCg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
