The page and link was posted on slashdot. Enough said.
Regards Anil On 2/23/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric Enright wrote: > Hi all, > > Several weeks (months?) ago Sun had some sort of online deal where > they would ship free S10 and Sun Studio 11 CDs out for free. A few > weeks ago a friend of mine was complaining about not receiving them, > and just now another friend of mine is mentioning not receiving them. > Is there any known reason for this? > >> From my second friend's confirmation email: > > ------------------------- > > We have received your request for a free Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11 DVD > Media kit. Assuming that the mailing address you've provided is valid and > resides in a country in which it is legal for Sun to ship media, you should > expect for your kit to arrive within 10 business days. > > ------------------------- > > His shipping address was in the same email, and is in the USA and > correct. This "order" was placed, roughly, in mid-January. > > I'm all for this sort of marketing to help garner interest in > OpenSolaris. One of the aforementioned friends was reluctant to spend > his time downloading SXCR (which I pushed) but this got him going. > His not having it by now has all but killed his interest. Whats going > on? > > Sadly, the second friend was also involved with Windows Vista, which > also promised to send him CDs. They were late due to supply reasons, > but they did at least email him every few weeks to tell him so. I have several friends who are in the same position wrt Solaris 10 media. One of them ordered well before Christmas, too. James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
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