On Apr 1, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
I'm very sorry, I intended but forgot to apologize in advance to technical employees of Sun/Oracle. This post is certainly not directed to you.But, to be fair, this is not a technical list. "Compilers", for example, is a technical list. This, in contrast, is "OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are open for discussion."So, to more precisely direct my questions to the intended audience: Can any user of Solaris 10 and/or OpenSolaris who has contacted an Oracle sales rep answer any of the questions in my original post?Please, anyone who has been able to obtain a price for Solaris 10 OS support from an Oracle sales rep, can you post a reply saying what the price was? This is a matter of general interest.Once again, I offer my sincerest apologies to Sun engineers.
Hi Alex,I've been trying to get answers to some similar or same questions from Oracle. The latest thing I got from Oracle was to contact Dell about OEM support (we're looking at running Solaris 10 on VMware on Dell). The Dell rep was happy enough to hear from me incidentally.
I think speaking to the technical community through message boards and email lists has done as much good as it's going to. Oracle's only going to listen to feedback coming back through their Sales Reps at this point. An idea I recently heard that makes sense to me, is for anyone who's willing to spend money for Solaris 10 (even if it's not a lot of money), and who has the patience to call a Sales person, and the patience to respond back to their calls (at least for a while) to start calling, and asking questions about options for what's lacking (In my case, Solaris 10 on non-Sun hardware). Possibly after enough of that, Sales will feed something back to management about missed opportunities, then maybe management might change something, that might make something available out there that seems remotely sane to the technical community's reality.
Yeah, a lot of what ifs, and mights in there, I know, but I'm pretty sure the Oracle Sales people don't frequent these mailing lists or message boards. Maybe I'm hopelessly optimistic, but what the heck, what's the worst thing that could happen from Oracle Sales getting a bunch of calls from people who want Solaris?
Just my two cents there and a copycat idea though. YMMV. cheers, Brian ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Wilson, Sun SE, UW-Madison DoIT Room 3114 CS&S 608-263-8047 bfwilson(a)doit.wisc.edu 'I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own.' - John Crichton -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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