I was also told 8% of the cost of the machine, but the link that the sales rep sent me to said it was $1000/socket per machine (for non-Sun/Oracle hardware).
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Kjar <[email protected]> wrote: > I contacted my reps and they came back with no tiered pricing, 8 percent > of the average cost of the machine that it is running on at the time of > purchase. Others have told me that they did get 'special' pricing from > Oracle but I put my request in 2 months ago and have heard nothing back yet. > > I moved most of my stuff to OI and am just waiting till the summer to > migrate the remaining server. Only functionality I will lose is Kiosk > Sunray sessions. I hope somebody finds a cure for that in the meantime. > > > > On 11/16/10 11:20 AM, Cia Watson wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:53:19 -0500 >> Daniel Kjar<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> IANAL but it looks just like the new EULA for solaris 10. Testing and >>> demonstration, nothing else. Period. If it is a production environment >>> you need to buy a license. They also had a nice bit in there about 'we >>> will watch to make sure you don't violate this'. As a professor that >>> only produces academic non-commercial services, I find this completely >>> unacceptable. Microsoft sells licenses that academics can afford and >>> they still make money by getting fortune 500s to buy their crap. Why >>> Oracle doesn't think that is viable is beyond me. >>> >>> When I looked at the details for licensing, it suggests one contact >> their >> sales person and then if you don't have a sales person you can fill in a >> form and someone will contact you. It may be they have tiered pricing or >> licensing that they just haven't made public. I didn't fill in the form >> since I'm just a desktop user for the most part with a blog and website >> I've been neglecting, so I went back to linux for now. >> >> Cia W >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
