+1 I fully agree with that
dick hoogendijk wrote: > 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? > > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
