Paid Sun Patches

Tue Feb 18 14:18:14 PST 2003

Here's one criteria:
If the machine dies, will your life suck?

Quoting Mark Allen (mallen at byte-me.org):
> Some Sun patch advisories require a SunSolve contract... I'm
> just curious if there's any consensus out there about whether
> it's worth the time, money and hassle to have a software contract,
> or if I'm really okay sticking with the free-access public patches.
> 
> My operating environment is mostly light duty work behind a firewall. 
> (ie., no direct Internet facing services, and applications like low 
> volume mail hub, DNS secondary, etc.)