On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:53:19 -0500 Daniel Kjar <dk...@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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
