matth...@pfuetzner.de said: > As stated many times: All older systems are eligible to get a support > contract, as long as they have an entitlement. Support comes directly from > Oracle. But, yes, no security updates without a contract. Still, I have NO > insight, into how Oracle handled or handles Universities, so, yes, I assume, > you need to talk to an Oracle/Sun Service Sales Rep. The 8% are NOT on the > list price...
At this university, we have finally gotten support price quotes back on our older systems. On systems which used to have Gold, Silver, or Bronze coverage (sw+hw combined), our prices for the new Premium Support for Systems are significantly lower than the old Sun pricing. Unfortunately, the software-only Premium Support for OS's is of course no longer free like we were used to. It's also unfortunately significantly higher than what we pay for RHEL subscriptions, or for Windows. It is also unfortunate that there is no hardware-only support option, for those of our customers who run Windows or RHEL on Sun gear. They will be required to pay for Premium Support for Systems, if they want some kind of hardware coverage. Just off the top of my head, probably about 10% of our customers will save money over what they were paying before, and the remaining 90% will either have to pay more, go without support altogether, or switch to a cheaper alternative than Oracle. Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
