> 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.
do they know why ? no .. of course not. you get an answer like "just cus I say so". > 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). I don't want Red Hat. I never bloody did. I'm stuck with it because of VMware and the dumb idea of having an "enterprise" license in hand that doesn't mean anything. > 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. not true you get a smaller bank account > You get some crappy phone support to tell you how to put the CD in the > drive, and that's about it. also not true you are thinking of the escalated second tier people they have > 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.;-) I think that by now you know I'm smarter than that. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
