Paul, this is a wrong assumption...
OEM's are IBM, HP, and DELL (and Fujitsu for the Sparc side). IBM: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS208-031&appname=USN HP: http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/us/en/consolidated/os-sun-solaris.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN Dell: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/management/solaris_solution?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~ck=anavml And: HP also: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13239_div/13239_div.pdf Sun/Oracle still offers commercial support for OpenSolaris, why do you think otherwise? http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/hardware-systems-support-policies.pdf Provides explicit information on Oracle Premium Support for Operating Systems. And the OSes are: OEL, OVM, Oracle Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. Rule: You need an entitlement to run Solaris/openSolaris in a PRODUCTION environment. That entitlement is bound to the HW, and sold by the OEM partners as part of the license or bundled with the Oracle/Sun hardware. You might already have such an entitlement, if you have Sun/Oracle hardware or your non-Sun hardware is covered by the OEM agreement of the OEM partners. That for COMMERCIAL USE. If you use it for Dev or Desktop (personal use), than it's regardless, which hardware you have... So, if you have an entitlement, you then can buy Oracle Premium Support for Operating Systems. That Support enables you to get access to patches, updates, and in the case of OpenSolaris access to the /dev repository. You might also want to check: http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/ Matthias You (Paul Floyd) wrote: > Hi > > Well, Sun used to offer commercial support for OpenSolaris, and presumably > much of the codebase of OpenSolaris will one day be Solaris 11 (or whatever > it gets called). People may or may not want to pay for support for that. > > If there is no future support for Solaris on non-Sun and non-HP/Dell servers > (in effect limiting the choice of x86/x64 machines enormously, then IMO a lot > of people are going to be put off OpenSolaris). > > A+ > Paul -- Matthias Pfützner | Tel.: +49 700 PFUETZNER | "Virtuelle Realität" ist Lichtenbergstr.73 | mailto:[email protected] | ein Begriff wie "eckiger D-64289 Darmstadt | AIM: pfuetz, ICQ: 300967487 | Kreis". Germany | http://www.pfuetzner.de/matthias/ | Prof. Manfred Koob _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
