> We've been talking with both our Sun salesman and HP. > It appears that support for Sun hardware will be > priced at 12% of net purchase price (i.e. after > discount) for both hardware and software support, and > 8% for just software. There will be only one class or > service, namely high class. We don't think there will > be a way to keep running it on older systems and just > get security updates, for a lower price. > > As for non-Sun hardware, we're being told it is still > possible to get support for Soarlis 10u8 and older, > but all problems will have to be duplicated on Sun > hardware. It is not possible to get support for later > releases. > > HP has a contract to support Solaris for HP systems. > Sun has cancelled that contract, but for the next 3 > years you'll still be able to get support from HP. I > haven't talked with Dell, but since Dell also sold > hardware with Solaris, I'd expect something similar > for them. > > This all concerns me, as the net effect is to move > Solaris from a mainstream OS to the equivalent of > HP-UX. It's still a fine OS, which has some things we > like. We may still use it one a couple of machines, > at least for a year or two. Our administrative folks > may continue using it for the forseeable future for > their large systems. But we see a lot of Solaris > usage moving to Linux. This may be just fine with > Oracle, as historically they have been interested in > high end business, and it looks like that will > continue. 12% of net purchase for hardware and > software with good response time isn't such a bad > deal for key servers. However personally I hate to > see them restrict Solaris to systems with high-end > support needs, because I rather like Solaris and > would like to use it more widely. > > I don't know anything specific about Opensolaris, but > from what I know about Oracle, once they've decided > to limit themselves to high-end business I doubt > they'll make it easy for Opensolaris to take over the > role they're shutting down for Solaris. Perhaps > they're planning to move the low-end business that > they're giving up for Solaris to OpenSolaris. But I > think that's a long shot, and I think we would have > heard something by now. > > Message was edited by: hedrick
I think since many business are moving away from HP-UX , Solaris ,etc over to redhat linux and windows, .Oracle, once they finish intergrating SUN, will offer solaris to the low-end business on sun units to compete against IBM, redhat, microsoft directly and OpenSolaris will continue like Mr. Roberts stated it will, will end up being the equivalent to Fedora. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
