[ale] OpenSolaris now trial only

[Dennis Ruzeski]

OpenSolaris will remain free. This refers to the standard Solaris 10
which was free for non-commercial or some such and now has a 90 day
trial at which time  you have to buy support to continue using it.
--Dennis



On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Interesting article:
>
> http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7749/1.html
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> In essence it says that Sun has added clause to the download info for
> OpenSolaris that makes it a 90 day trial which expires if you don’t buy
> support.
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>
> It also seems to suggest that UNIX is dead but I’m not sure I buy that.
> Having 10 app servers with Linux on them and 2 clustered high end UNIX
> Servers with massive databases on them is like comparing apples to
> oranges.   Using that kind of measurement would mean MS NT/200x had killed
> UNIX long ago like it wanted to.   Also if you do the numbers that way it
> would mean Linux is also “dead” despite its growth.
>
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> Although with more and more cores becoming available in Intel x86_64 it does
> seem like eventually there will be little need for proprietary architectures
> that most UNIX commercial variants are tied to.   In fact I was just
> mentioning the other day that HP quit shipping their own RISC based systems
> last year in favor of Itanium and may soon find they’re the only ones using
> Itanium.  RedHat announced recently that they weren’t going to support
> Itanium in future releases.
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