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.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 14:07:14 CDT
