[OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

[Peter Tribble]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> > Why "The End is near"? Sounds the SPARC platform will be continued
> > beyond 2020, right?
>
> Obviously I do not care about SPARC machines... But I see no Solaris 12...
> It seems that Solaris 11.4 will be the last release of Solaris.
>

Version numbers have specific meanings here. Having a 12 implies
that it's incompatible with 11 at some level (that's precisely what the
version number bump would mean). I haven't seen anything coming
down the track that requires such a bump, it's far better for customers
and support (and vendor qualification) to stick with update releases of
11. I guess they've just rebranded 12 as 11.next and about the only
difference will be that all the legacy junk scheduled for removal in
12 will stay around a bit longer.

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