[ale] OpenSolaris now trial only

[Matt Rideout]

This has been done to Solaris, not OpenSolaris. When I read your email,
I was a bit alarmed, but nope, the article is referring to the Solaris
licensing change. OpenSolaris is still available for download without
the 90-day limit.

Still makes me sad to see Oracle driving nails into the Solaris coffin.

Lightner, Jeff 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.
>
>  
>
> 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.  
>
>  
>
> 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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