To give you an idea of how self destructive this is, I am now moving all of my operations to ubuntu (not my opensolaris desktop/file server though!). Today I was able to get my sunrays running on 9.10 and tomorrow I will move them up to 10.04. I can buy licenses for my sunrays for 100 dollars a pop, and patches from oracle for 100 dollars a year. I cannot afford 2000 dollars a year for my Blade and my X2200 for solaris. I would use it if I could but since I saw that license today I am out of luck and will remove solaris from all of my computers. I hope one of the new openindianas is straight up compatible with srss 4.2 but I can't count on it. I am running an older version of 10 on my x2200 so I should still be ok with the license for the moment.
I am a professor and all of my work is non-commercial and I require no support besides security updates. I would pay for those just as I pay for them with my sunrays. Now, instead of my students seeing ORACLE on their workstations, they will see UBUNTU. Their call. Seems absolutely self defeating to me but I guess we do not count. If that is the case I will just move on. Pay for what I can still afford and just turn my back on what I have really grown to enjoy. Let me tell you how sick I am of going back to etc/init.d -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
