The idea is, even if some are not happy: Want to know what is coming in solaris next => OpenSolaris
Want to test solaris => 90 days to play with after free download (ask AIX, HP-UX SYS Admins for comparison) Want to run production systems with official support and sw patches/ updates => support required Want a certified and solaris licence included system, avoiding driver issues => buy directly a sun fire system (x86 or SPARC) It a little bit like trying to have Mac OS X on a non Apple HW, and expect to have free updates from Apple. Anybody serious about MacOS X directly buy an Apple HW, no " when you buy a MacBook, you are also paying the OS licence and minor updates/patches (no, it's not free, it's included). Everybody find this licencing fair. Karim On 30 mars 2010, at 22:59, "Silvan M. Gebhardt" <gebhardt at openfactory.ch> wrote: > What about patches and software updates? Anybody know? I have > running free instances I'm not happy having to upgrade them to > opensolaris as I remember a lot of headaches on my production systems. > (I had a degraded networkdriver around snv93 that out my > networkspeed to 90kbit - restoring snv85 driver fixed that but that > disappointed me and put me on solaris 10 for production....) > > The second sad thing i read today from oracle, the other beeing the > all or nothing hardware support thingie - first sony with killing > otheros, now oracle :( :( > > I'm gonna try out freebsd with zfs soon..... > > ----- Originalnachricht ----- > Von: ug-chosug-bounces at opensolaris.org <ug-chosug-bounces at > opensolaris.org > > > An: ug-chosug at opensolaris.org <ug-chosug at opensolaris.org> > Gesendet: Tue Mar 30 22:33:15 2010 > Betreff: [ug-chosug] Solaris 10 > > Solaris 10 is the King yes but no more free > > > +++ NEWS +++ > Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun's UNIX operating > system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has > adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to > purchase a service contract in order to use the software. > > Sun's policy was that anyone could use Solaris 10 for free without > official support. Users could get a license entitling them to > perpetual commercial use by filling out a simple survey and giving > their e-mail address to Sun. Oracle is discontinuing this practice, > and is repositioning the free version as a limited-duration trial. > > "Your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a > trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the > downloaded Software," the new license says. > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Switzerland OpenSolaris Mailing List > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug > wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/chosug > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=161188&trk=hb_side_g > ISO images: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/opensolaris.org/release_isos/ > IPS: http://ips.osug.ch:10000/release/ > Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31224908 at N08 > _______________________________________________ > Switzerland OpenSolaris Mailing List > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug > wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/chosug > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=161188&trk=hb_side_g > ISO images: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/opensolaris.org/release_isos/ > IPS: http://ips.osug.ch:10000/release/ > Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31224908 at N08
