End of Service Life Status for OpenSolaris Operating System This describes the OpenSolaris End Of Service Life timeline for OpenSolaris OS releases. The information covers the support status of every OpenSolaris release. Key Benefits Remain compliant with the latest package updates and receive entitlement to these through the Support Repository. Make informed decisions about when to migrate to new technology or the latest release. Resources End of Service Life OpenSolaris Product Life Cycle OpenSolaris Subscriptions Sun System Plans Sun provides contractual support on the OpenSolaris OS for up to five years from the product's first General Availability (GA) date as follows. Table 1: Phase Descriptions Phase Support Level General Availability: 6 months from GA date Telephone/online support bugs/rfes can be submitted and fixed in the current release. Short term relief for unfixed bugs through diagnostic binaries (IDR) for newly discovered defects. SRUs for this version are created during this GA period only. SRUs include SunAlert fixes (proactive) and customer escalated issues. Post End of Version (EOV) Phase: 2 1/2 years (after GA 6 month period) Telephone/online support Bugs/rfes can be submitted, but will be fixed in a future release. Short term relief for unfixed bugs through diagnostic binaries (IDR) for newly discovered defects. SunSpectrum End of Service Life (SS-EOSL) Phase: 2 years (after EOV phase) Telephone/online support Bugs/rfes can be submitted, but will be fixed in a future release. Short term relief for unfixed bugs through diagnostic binaries (IDR) for newly discovered defects. Additional price uplift will apply during this phase. OpenSolaris releases covered under the GA Phase Release Name and GA Date End of GA Phase End of Post EOV Phase End of SS-EOSL Phase (24 months) OpenSolaris 2009.06 - 06/01/09 12/01/09 06/01/12 06/01/14 Table 3: OpenSolaris releases covered under the Post EOV Phase Release Name and GA Date End of GA Phase End of Post EOV Phase End of SS-EOSL Phase (24 months) OpenSolaris 2008.05 - 05/13/09 11/13/08 5/13/11 N/A OpenSolaris 2008.11 - 11/25/08 05/25/09 11/25/11 N/A Table 4: OpenSolaris releases covered under the SS-EOSL Phase Release Name and GA Date End of GA Phase End of Post EOV Phase End of SS-EOSL Phase (24 months)

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