[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[John Wallace]

On Dec 3, 1:15 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Not sure how many people here also use Solaris, or want to know about
> improvements in Solaris since Oracle took over. (up until now, I just
> assumed that Oracle would only do minimum development of Solaris as a
> leverage for their database engine). This week I was asked to watch a
> 10 minute promotional video about changes in Solaris-11 and will only
> pass along two items that jumped out at me:
>
> 1) According to Oracle, Solaris is not fully protected from attack
> until it is fully booted (really? I was led to believe that security
> was built into UNIX). For this reason, Solaris-11 has been modified so
> that the network remains disconnected until booting has finished.
>
> (there was no mention of what to do when booting from a network
> storage device like a SAN so maybe the speaker didn't mean physically
> disconnected, just really restricted)
>
> 2) Like Windows software updates, Solaris-11 software updates can now
> be performed automatically or semi-automatically by the target system
> (if the system admin desires).
>
> NSR

Maybe it's just me but when I saw "Solaris-11" I wondered why
comp.os.vms would be discussing Oracle's release of Solaris for the
PDP11.