On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 07:54 -0700, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > [...] > > 8% of customer’s net system price > > There will only be one price list – > > Hardware Price List > > Service pricing is based on hardware > > price > [...] > > Well..._that_ destroys support for the home user. I mean, am I really > going to spend 8% * the $12000 or so that my Sun Blade 2000 (with XVR-1000 > graphics) > cost new, when I bought it used off of eBay for maybe $1000? > > (8% of $12000 is $960, enough to buy an entire system these days, or for that > matter > only a few bucks less than a bare-bones Sun Blade 100 cost new; I ought to > know, as > I actually did buy my Sun Blade 100 new, just a couple months after they > first came out. > This is crazy...worse that the Microsoft tax almost.)
So what I was able to piece together yesterday is confirmed: No patch updates for non Sun hardware. Leave it to Larry to find a loophole around Solaris 10's "Perpetual License". > The cheap sunsolve-only support is really needed... Free security patch updates are what's needed. But what's really needed is for someone to take a bat to Ellison. Nobody has the moxie for that so I'm going to be in contact with my legislators and file complaints about this. Larry has effectively yanked the rug out from under every small to medium sizes business that's been foolish to build Solaris 10 into their infrastructure these past few years based upon reasonable conclusions drawn from the Solaris 10 license. There go the past two year's work down the drain. I saw this coming weeks ago when the security patches went away and have been transitioning servers back to OpenBSD. I was "being patient" to see what actually did shake out in the wash for those last couple boxes though. And as expected, Oracle is fsck'ing us up the arse. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
