Thanks Mike. I hope everyone in the list with Sparc machine and running Solaris 8 will benefit.
KF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Re: PANIC: Invalid argument > K. F. Yim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > We encounter the same problem on OpenLDAP and are also planning to use > > iPlanet > > Directory Server and we got information from our local Sun sale > > representitives that > > we can only use 10k user license for any Sparc machine purchased. > > > > Could you please confirm this. (200k entries on each machine purchased) > > > > Hi, > It is not 200k different entries on each machine, it is 200k entries > total in the directory as long as all replicas are also sparc machines > running solaris 8. The same license does not apply for solaris 9, afaik. > > http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/package.html > > Look at the section for solaris 8. Sun has consistently updated the > version number in the license every time a new version of the directory > server has appeared. There is no good reason to not use solaris 8 and > directory 5.1 if you have available sparc hardware. > > -- > Mike > - I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
