[ale] OpenSolaris now trial only

[Lightner, Jeff]

I never realized Solaris itself had ever been made free so stupidly
assumed this was referring to OpenSolaris.

The article was based on another article that goes over why they think
doing a 90 day trial for Solaris is a bad idea:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/license-change-leaves-sun-solaris
-users-crossroads-858?page=0,0

Of course when I tried to see the actual license for OpenSolaris I was
totally confused.   My read is it uses an open license except for where
it doesn't.   That's the kind of thing lawyers love to argue over so it
wouldn't make me overly happy about agreeing to it.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Matt
Rideout
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 2:15 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] OpenSolaris now trial only

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
>
>  
>
> 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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