[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/7/2011 6:41 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Dec 4, 7:41 pm, John Wallace<johnwalla... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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).

<snicker> <choke> <gasp>

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