But to cut off firmware updates to their hardware? No one does this. You want updates, get a service contract because the OS was free. Ok, I can understand closing off downloads of different patches to the OS. This might be the final straw in terms of me recommending Sun/Oracle hardware anymore. If you own the hardware, you should be able to get the latest system firmware. This is firmware which ONLY WORKS on your Sun/Oracle hardware.
It's still a step in the right direction. And it's predictable that whoever is reworking Sun's web presence is going to screw up now and then - something that complicated is Murphy's Law waiting to happen.
Naturally, Oracle is trying to clean up this mess. Worst of all, Sun's politics and organizational dysfunction meant that web content was generated by a half dozen different groups with overlapping and conflicting responsibilities. They were in denial about the many problems with their tech, knew jack about clean web design, and had way too many processes that should have been automated but weren't. One of the least favorite parts of my job was dealing with the company's web bureaucrats. I wrote technical docs for Sun, some of which appeared on the web.
That's one reason other server vendors (like Dell) have cleaning Sun's clock for a long time.
#ILO 2 FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD#
I used to have a hell of a time finding the download I needed - and I was a Sun employee. If you've been running Sun systems for that long, you know what a pain it is to navigate Sun's absolute mess of customer web sites.