Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Sep 2005 23:10 UTC
"Solaris 9 users and customers will be happy to know that 9/05 is out. Get it for both SPARC and X86. Sadly the Whats New docs for Solaris 9 don't include a per-update review of changes, however the customer notification mail states: "It supports the newer hardware models such as SPARC servers based on the UltraSPARCIV+ processor and the Galaxy x64 servers." So, the big news here boils down to multi-core support for Solaris 9."
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Sun refers to "General Availablity" as FCS or "First Customer Ship".
Yes, I knew this. And I know the subsequent two phases of support (even though I didn't know their names) are supposed to last about two years each.
Is this the first time in history of Sun, that three SunOS/Solaris operating system versions are being sold?
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Sun refers to "General Availablity" as FCS or "First Customer Ship".
Sun has several levels of support for Solaris; you get the last ship date, phase 1 and phase 2 support. These are described in detail in InfoDoc #10012 at http://sunsolve9.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-10012-1 which is unfortunately a contract-only document.
Basically once a version of Solaris has hit its last ship date it enters in phase one of the vintage support where contract customers will have access to patches and may request patches for all other than enhancements and cosmetic bugs. Quarterly updates are not performed. Phase one support lasts for two years after last ship date.
After phase one has finished the Solaris version enters into phase two where no new patches are released, but contract customers continue to get phone support and access to patches. Phase two support lasts for three years.
Right now Solaris 2.5.1 - which was last shipped in 200 - is about to end its phase two support. Solaris 2.6 which was last shipped in 2001 will finish its phase two mid-2006. Solaris 7 has just entered phase two support.
Solaris 8 (along with 9 and 10) is still being shipped so no dates have been set for it yet.