[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

[Daniel Kjar]

  I contacted my reps and they came back with no tiered pricing, 8 
percent of the average cost of the machine that it is running on at the 
time of purchase.  Others have told me that they did get 'special' 
pricing from Oracle but I put my request in 2 months ago and have heard 
nothing back yet.

I moved most of my stuff to OI and am just waiting till the summer to 
migrate the remaining server.  Only functionality I will lose is Kiosk 
Sunray sessions.  I hope somebody finds a cure for that in the meantime.


On 11/16/10 11:20 AM, Cia Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:53:19 -0500
> Daniel Kjar<dkjar at elmira.edu>  wrote:
>
>>    IANAL but it looks just like the new EULA for solaris 10.  Testing and
>> demonstration, nothing else.  Period. If it is a production environment
>> you need to buy a license.  They also had a nice bit in there about 'we
>> will watch to make sure you don't violate this'.  As a professor that
>> only produces academic non-commercial services, I find this completely
>> unacceptable.  Microsoft sells licenses that academics can afford and
>> they still make money by getting fortune 500s to buy their crap.  Why
>> Oracle doesn't think that is viable is beyond me.
>>
> When I looked at the details for licensing, it suggests one contact their
> sales person and then if you don't have a sales person you can fill in a
> form and someone will contact you. It may be they have tiered pricing or
> licensing that they just haven't made public. I didn't fill in the form
> since I'm just a desktop user for the most part with a blog and website
> I've been neglecting, so I went back to linux for now.
>
> Cia W
>
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