Bob Jones wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1144177633.580918_at_yasure.drizzle.com...
>> Bob Jones wrote:
>>> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
>>> news:1143825073.91644_at_yasure.drizzle.com...
>>>> Dave wrote:
>>>>> I agree that risk is minimal but I guess i'm wondering if I should put
>>>>> myself in a situation where they are out of sync if I don't need to. I
>>>>> fully agree that we should upgrade to Solaris 10 but I would rather
>>>>> have a plan in place to upgrade all our environments instead of having
>>>>> descrepancies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just knowing how long it takes to get things done in our environment,
>>>>> if there is no plan now, then it isn't on the radar for the forseeable
>>>>> future. I'd have no issues with them being out of sync for 6 months
>>>>> but no more than that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Backup and recovery isn't an issue, we have a good plan for that. I
>>>>> don't think there are any dependancies based on OS version.
>>>> You MUST upgrade DEV before TEST. You MUST upgrade TEST before PROD.
>>>> So why the resistance to being out of synch? Just make sure that you
>>>> have a well thought out, well documented, upgrade plan that moves the
>>>> code through all three stages.
>>>> --
>>> Hmmmmm, that seems to be conflicting with what you said in the other
>>> subthread.
>> Not at all. Lets say production is in Solaris 8 and a new app is developed
>> and tested in 10. Would you take the app and move it into
>> production? I would hope not. Not without moving production to 10
>> first. Which usually means making sure the existing app will work
>> in 10 too.
>> --
>
> You must not have read OP's question carefully. He said they have no plan to
> upgrade prod to Solaris 10.
Which in my mind meant that dev and test MUST stay at the earlier
version. Was I unclear in what I posted?
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 13:38:42 CDT
