So I guess next version/update of Solaris will be released in August of 2011? Solaris 10 8/11 (update 10). Such a long wait, I was hoping to see it earlier. Wanted to play with zfs new features, especially dedupliication. Oh well, will have to wait since I cant move to either open solaris oe solaris express… 
So I upgraded my solaris server to latest kernel patch and of course it had sendmail as part of that kernel. My emails stopped flowing around. Was looking how to fix it as my home server is my default mail gateway for my email. So anyway in my sendmail config I had the following lines:
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E
so I changed them to all 0′s:
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E
then I removed the Addr field
# SMTP daemon options
O DaemonPortOptions=Name=MTA
O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E
I knew something was cooking, when IBM announcement was made SUN’s stock jumped like a rocket, then when deal was off, at least from talk perspective stock did retreat, but please don’t tell me people did not know somehow that something else is cooking, how come stock did not go down to previous levels or lower as it usually does after such situation? Well inside traders knew something that others (such as myself) had no idea, I could only speculate something was out in the air as stock only did drop to over $6. So now another announcement is made and look at this. Stock went back to over $9. Interesting, I hate those inside traders, those people who makes millions or even billions by just having access to the right information that others don’t.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
This certainly could be quite interesting in development and see how will it play. Maybe Oracle can keep most of SUN’s items as comparing to IBM it was obvious that there would be to much in common and redundant and they would not carry forward with all technologies. Wonder what will happen to MySQL since Oracle has its own DB, maybe they will keep it? I certainly hope so as I really do enjoy mysql myself, its easy and small, and I certainly hope Oracle will not destroy it by packing to much crap on top of it as they did it to Oracle (Remember Oracle when it was like 8 or even 9i? How small it was and how fast it was? Look at it now at 10g and 11, how massive, how much disk space and memory it does require to just run it or start it. At my current job when we do not have enough swap space allocated to global zone we cannot even start some Oracle instances because on a start it does require swap space… why? swap should not even be used. Anyway so I hope Oracle will not just destroy it… 
But its exciting news I think…
Massive Sun cuts planned as IBM focuses on software trio
IBM staffers have, according to a Reg source close to the parties, been talking to Sun about its software portfolio and – unsurprisingly – they don’t like what they’ve found: It’s not making any money.
IBM’s now interested in three Sun software assets: the open-source MySQL database, Java, and Sun’s Solaris operating system.
The rest, including all that open-source work Sun’s spent years building and hyping, will succumb to that classic of big vendor lingering deaths by being, ahem, “released” to the “community”.
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/technology/business-computing/06blue.html
I believe its just all rumors to pump up the stock of Sun, it just does not make any sense for IBM to buy SUN. The only thing that I can see IBM benefiting from would be java portion, other than that they have it all. Chips? Well they have their own PowerPC. Unix? well they have their own AIX and Linux. Professional Services? They certainly much better on that. DB? Well IBM had DB2, why do they need mysql for? If they wanted to buy SUN why not doing it last year when Sun was at its lowest? If they wanted to get mysql they could have done that way before sun did. So why? Well whoever did play SUN stocks certainly made a killing yesterday.
T2000
setsc if_network true
setsc netsc_ipaddr <ip address>
setsc netsc_ipnetmask <ip netmask>
setsc netsc_ipgateway <ip gateway>
sc> setsc if_network true
sc> setsc netsc_ipaddr 192.168.105.27
sc> setsc netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.0
sc> setsc netsc_ipgateway 192.168.105.1
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rsc-config
ok setenv diag-out-console true
ok setenv input-device rsc-console
ok setenv output-device rsc-console
ok reset-all
The same changes could be made from Solaris using the eeprom command, the changes would take affect at the next reboot.
# eeprom diag-out-console=true
# eeprom input-device=rsc-console
# eeprom output-device=rsc-console
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Eric Straavaldsen, April 2007
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