On Wednesday 22 November 2006 09:45 am, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Probably just morons like me that like to have licenses in place and > support contracts. Thankfully the support contracts from Sun costs > pennies. Or at least coffee money per day.
My experience as a consultant before joining Sun is that the majority of my clients that were using Linux would want the official package which is shrink wrapped. This is misleading though, there is no such thing as having a license in place, no more so than downloading and using Red Hat (which most enterprise type folks want). You get nothing by buying the shrink wrap, you get no license, you get no support, you get bupkas for the most part. You get no more than the average joe that downloads it over the net, AFAIK. You get some crappy phone support to tell you how to put the CD in the drive, and that's about it. But Red Hat makes a business out of shipping media, and they get more $$$s for it than Sun does...go figure...it is pretty moranic, to piggy back on your comments above.;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate Of Insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
