Re: Non-upgrade

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:53:20 -0700

At 10:04 PM 4/29/97 -0700, Damien T. wrote:
>At 05:20 PM 4/29/97 -1000, you wrote:
>>Note: I haven't upgraded my PM2 to ComOS 3.5x too lazy to upgrade
>>something that works like a charm... ;)
>
>Hmm. We haven't either <g>!
>

Having been a firewall enterprise admin before coming to Livingston I FULLY
agree with the idea "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". If the ComOS you're
running does what you want, stay there.

I was running a Sun 1000E 4 CPU Solaris 2.4 firewall. I looked at what it
would take to upgrade to Solaris 2.5 and about KILLED the nearest Sun rep!
Those *IDIOTS* *REQUIRE* that the machine be shutdown JUST TO LOAD THE
SOFTWARE!

We weren't broke enough at 2.4 to go through the pain of the upgrade. As
far as I know that machine is still at 2.4.

JGT
Enterprise Admin

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