Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-12 Thread Bayard Bell
BTW: I am aware that the OGB minutes say otherwise than that separate OS support will be made available: https://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=125252&tstart=30 I don't get why this isn't reflected in the "Oracle Hardware and Systems Support Policy" doc released 16 March 2010 (htt

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-12 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 10 Apr 2010 um 15:48 schrieb Edward Ned Harvey: You should also discover some obstacle to purchasing it, even if you want to. Because they want you to buy it on Sun hardware, or from a huge name reseller, such as Dell or HP or IBM. Solaris 10 is also known as SunOS 5.10. Opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/11/10 09:53 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Graham McArdle wrote: It's kind of ironic timing that a newcomer to OpenSolaris& Solaris would discover and be surprised that Solaris 10 is free, when we've just had a long thread discussing how annoying it is that Solaris 10 is no longer fre

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Graham McArdle wrote: > It's kind of ironic timing that a newcomer to OpenSolaris & Solaris would > discover and be surprised that Solaris 10 is free, when we've just had a long > thread discussing how annoying it is that Solaris 10 is no longer free! Solaris 10 was never free. It is a commer

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Graham McArdle
> I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free > version of Solaris. The one where the community helps > develop future releases of Solaris, and Solaris was > the commercial product that cost money to obtain. > Just went to the website and it says I can have > Solaris 10 free? It's kind of

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread john kroll
So if I'm not a developer or programmer and don't want to be, Maybe I and others like me should get Solaris 10 a finished product.behind the completed?? True Solaris pre-installed inside one of their production machines might be a better way to go. You could still try it in another machine jus

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Edward Ned Harvey) wrote: > > And you're talking about the OpenSolaris.COM binary distribution > > identifing > > itself as SunOS 5.11... Don't know, if that applies to Nexenta, > > Schillix, > > Belenix et.al... > > I don’t know about Nexenta etc, either. But the emphasis on "COM" isn't > r

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Matthias Pfützner [mailto:matth...@pfuetzner.de] > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:59 AM > > Some small corrections, if I'm not mistaken: > > It's not 30, but 90 days... I think you're right. My mistake. > And you're talking about the OpenSolaris.COM binary distribution > identifing

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Edward Ned Harvey) wrote: > > From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of jay krik > > > > I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free version of > > Solaris. The one where the community helps develop future

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- > discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of jay krik > > I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free version of > Solaris. The one where the community helps develop future releases of > Solaris, and Solaris was t

Re: [osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (jay krik) wrote: > I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free version of Solaris. The > one where the community helps develop future releases of Solaris, and Solaris > was the commercial product that cost money to obtain. > Just went to the website and it says I can have Solaris 10

[osol-discuss] ok I'm really confused; Solaris 10 vs Open Solaris

2010-04-10 Thread jay krik
I was under the impression Open Solaris was the free version of Solaris. The one where the community helps develop future releases of Solaris, and Solaris was the commercial product that cost money to obtain. Just went to the website and it says I can have Solaris 10 free? So if I'm not a develop