some people complain about SUN. I'm not one of them. I like the OS very much and the contaxts I had with sun employees were very good and friendly. There is only ONE big issue I have with SUN: their ridiculous high prices for using their software in the fullest way.
Basic Service Plan for Solaris 10 : $ 324,- a year! Even Microsoft does not make me pay such a high amount EACH YEAR for using their software -INCLUDING ALL PATCHES- And this is what bothers me most: as a user of the OS I would like to be able to get/download released patches for the OS. I do not want a service contract or telephone support or whatever. I just would like to download -ALL- patches. This seems a normal way for using an OS. Surely I'd like to pay for this service. I do pay for MS stuff too. But for patches alone an anual fee of $324,- is way too much! Why couldn't SUN create a patch-only-support contract for less money. I'm sure lots of people using solaris 10 would love it. Or am I wrong here? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv101 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol)
