On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Eric Thomas wrote:

> The problem with these OS support matrixes is that, to take Solaris
> as an example, 39% of our Solaris customers run Solaris 8 or older.
> There would be a mob with feathers and tar if we ran Solaris 10 on
> our development systems and people had to upgrade to that version to
> install new LISTSERV versions ;-) The same goes for most operating
> systems where you need one piece of real iron for every version you
> want to have in house. We end up not being able to have every
> version in house. This being said, I remember seeing a binary
> compatibility guarantee on Sun's web site for Solaris 10, and we do
> have a few customers running Solaris 10 and no mob outside the
> office, not that I could see this morning anyway ;-) So I am pretty
> sure it does work.

Eric;

Just curious, but have you considered doing development and testing in
a VMware environment?