On Apr 17, 2010, at 19:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: >> This posting by a customer who has spoken with his Oracle sales team >> recently seems to provide a useful base for the OGB to ask questions of >> Oracle at our next meeting. > > If you're looking for details like that customer mentioned, on what Oracle > will offer support contracts for, then these are the externally available > links I've seen with details on the current offerings for people looking > to buy support for new systems now: > > http://www.oracle.com/us/support/systems/operating-systems/index.html > http://www.oracle.com/support/collateral/hardware-systems-support-policies.pdf > > There are some mentions of continued support for existing systems, but that's > apparently a different set of rules. (And as you can imagine, the internal > mailing lists are full of requests to make more answers like this available, > so hopefully there will be more answers we can point to in the future.) > > Of course, that really doesn't cover the ongoing plans for the OpenSolaris > open source release & co-development community, though it does touch on the > binary distros Oracle will be building and offering based on those sources, > including the one that has shared the OpenSolaris name. >
Obviously the commercial support of Solaris is beyond the scope of the OGB, but the implications behind the message, and especially the conclusions in the last two paragraphs, will likely inform the questions the OGB will want to ask. S. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
