On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, David Magda wrote:
But that US$ 400 was only if you wanted support. For the last little while you could run Solaris 10 legally without a support contract without issues.
The $400 number is bogus since the amount that Oracle quotes now depends on the value of the hardware that the OS will run on. For my old SPARC Blade 2500 (which will probably not go beyond Solaris 10), the OS support cost was only in the $60-70 range. On a brand-new high-end system, the cost is higher. The OS support cost on a million dollar system would surely be quite high but owners of such systems will surely pay for system support rather than just OS support and care very much that their system continues running.
The previous Sun software support pricing model was completely bogus. The Oracle model is also bogus, but at least it provides a means for an entry-level user to be able to afford support.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
