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
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