Continue Getting Support for Solaris 8 With Vintage Patch Service
You can continue to run your business or favorite applications on the Solaris 8 OS, even though it will enter End of Service Life (EOSL) Phase 2 on April 1, 2009. EOSL Phase 2 means that all Solaris customers will continue to receive telephone support and access to patches developed before April 1, 2009, but they will not receive patches developed on April 1, 2009 or after. Even security patches. However, for those of you who want to continue running Solaris 8, Sun provides options -- see here for more info.
The Big Admin notice seems to offer two options:
1) Upgrade to Solaris 10 and run your applications
inside Solaris 8 Containers.
2)_Sign up for our Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service.
I am not very familiar with containers, but reading through it seems to me that if I run Solaris 8 in a container I will still need to subscribe to the
Vintage Patch service or am I not understanding it
correctly.
Regards David
Posted by David Evans-Roberts on December 19, 2008 at 08:25 AM CST #
I checked with the Sun Service group and you are correct. If would like patches for Solaris 8, even within a container, you would have to purchase the Solaris 8 Vintage Patch service. For more info on Solaris 8 Containers, please see:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones/
& http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/topics/upgrade/
Posted by CM on January 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM CST #