I need to leave solaris 10 because oracle is unwilling to supply security updates unless I pay somewhere in the range of 4000 dollars year to update my systems. I am a professor and use my sun hardware to serve websites and databases to the public as well as operate sunray's for colleagues.
According to the new licenses I can no longer use Solaris in non-commercial production environments. The only allowed uses are development and demonstration, nothing else. I have purchased licenses from Oracle for my SRSS (sunray) software updates, and purchased individual licenses for each of my sunray stations at a very reasonable price. However, I can not afford to offer Solaris 10 on those sunrays since 4000 dollars a year is way way way over my budget. Maybe 100-200 dollars a year I could do. no more. So, I have moved all of my apps to licenses that do not require arms and legs. I have tested srss5 on OpenIndiana and it works and that is where I am going. When Oracle wakes up maybe I will move back. The other option is by that time maybe I won't want to. Until that happens my students and colleagues will see OpenIndiana on their desktops rather than Oracle. Which is too bad. Particularly when you look at the history of Sun and where their first customers came from. Professors. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
