hedr...@rutgers.edu said: > I'm confused. I tried to find this posting at opensolaris.org, but it doesn't > seem to be there.
I'm on the email list, sent this posting out via email. It probably had not trickled through all the layers back to the forum. > I understand that Oracle needs to make money from Sun, but I think changing > Solaris from an OS that will run on many vendors' hardware to one that is the > equivalent of HP-UX changes the game. People already spoke of Solaris is > irrelevant. I think they're wrong, but this change is enough that I doubt > there will be many advocates left. I agree completely. Their only hope of keeping our research/education business is by being competitive on price. I have told our sales people that 90% of our Sun equipment purchases in the past 4-5 years have been from either their Education Essentials price list, or the similar Matching Grant program. That plus the fact that there's no SunSolve-only support option (so far) are just more nails in the coffin. Seems short-sighted to me, because our low-end hardware research customers don't stay just at the low end. Sometimes they go out and buy a $30,000 X4600 server with a metal-level support contract. Or maybe a petabyte of storage for that gene sequencer or high-resolution MRI that just came online. Oh, and to make this OpenSolaris-relevant: I heard back from one of our Oracle Sales contacts that indeed OpenSolaris is in the same boat: it will not be possible to buy the Premium Support for Operating Systems for OpenSolaris running on non-Oracle/Sun hardware. Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
