On Sun, August 15, 2010 09:19, David Magda wrote: > On Aug 14, 2010, at 14:54, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >> From: Russ Price > >> >>> For me, Solaris had zero mindshare since its beginning, on account of >>> being prohibitively expensive. >> >> I hear that a lot, and I don't get it. $400/yr does move it out of >> peoples' >> basements generally, and keeps sol10 out of enormous clustering >> facilities >> that don't have special purposes or free alternatives. But I >> wouldn't call >> it prohibitively expensive, for a whole lot of purposes. > > But that US$ 400 was only if you wanted support. For the last little > while you could run Solaris 10 legally without a support contract > without issues.
Looks like there are prices for "service" for things that could legitimately be called RedHat Enterprise Linux from $80/year up into at least the mid thousands; this may account for the range of impressions people have. The 24/7 Premium subscription for a two-socket server is $1299/year. The business-hours plan is $799. <https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html> Your point that "free" has been important is very true. I'm not sure that what Oracle says they're doing with Solaris 11 Express won't cover that at least for business customers, though. (I do think that they'll lose out on the extensive testing we've been providing.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
