[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

[Ron Dawson]

I was also told 8% of the cost of the machine, but the link that the sales
rep sent me to said it was $1000/socket per machine (for non-Sun/Oracle
hardware).

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:

>  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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