On 31/10/2008, at 3:21 AM, James Cornell wrote: >> I think OpenSolaris isn't intended for production use yet.. and Sun >> *does* have other versions which are fairly similar *and* offering >> support contracts. Have you taken the time to contact a support rep? >> (Sorry I don't know specifics or work for Sun, but hear it's quite >> reasonably priced..) >> > As Che said in his reply to this thread there's a gray area of what > Sun > intentions with 2008.11 specifically is. I believe 2008.11 is ready > for > small scale production use, but I also still believe Sun's pricing is > still out of line with the so called intended license, which is really > in all honesty developers in general, who normally don't buy into > support. Added value such as proprietary component support and post > dated support is something Sun has not formally addressed for any of > the > Indiana spin offs. Their OpenSolaris support has from the beginning > and > still is chiefly squared at SXCE. I'll keep checking back of course.
The support for OpenSolaris is basically aimed at those people whose access to some of the latest versions of software (not currently available in Solaris) are critical to their business needs. I don't think developers are necessarily the ones who would pay for this support, however. The current support plan that Sun offers provide a subscription for 18 months from the moment a given version is released - with some caveats about expectations in terms of escalations for RFEs. Obviously we've only released one version so far, and as Stephen mentioned, actively looking at refining it based on feedback from this list, and other forums. Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
